Push the Sky Away by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Push the Sky Away, the 15th studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, came out on 18 February 2013, and it's the sound of a band learning to whisper. It was cut at La Fabrique in the south of France with producer Nick Launay, and for the first time there was no Mick Harvey, the founding member who had walked in January 2009. Barry Adamson was back for the first time since Your Funeral... My Trial, and it would be Conway Savage's last.

With Harvey gone, electronic and ambient textures move to the centre, and the songs hover and simmer instead of exploding, Cave murmuring over the hush. "Jubilee Street" is the slow-building centrepiece. It opened a trilogy with Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen, and it became their first number-one album in Australia and topped the charts in six other countries too, while climbing to No. 3 in the UK and giving them their first top 50 album in America.

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