Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, the 14th studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, came out on Mute on 3 March 2008, and it's the sound of the band dragging some of Grinderman's grime back into the main house. Cave had told interviewers it would sound like his side project, and the Bad Seeds made good: they cut it at The State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, London, in June and July 2007, in about five days, blindingly fast for them, with Nick Launay producing and mixing at British Grove in Chiswick.

It's garage rock with a preacher's leer, Warren Ellis's scraping strings and the twin drums of Thomas Wydler and Jim Sclavunos shoving Cave into full raconteur mode. It was the second record without Blixa Bargeld and the last with founding member Mick Harvey and organist James Johnston. Tim Noble and Sue Webster did the artwork, and it was up for Australian Album of the Year at the 2008 J Awards.

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