Song · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Bright Horses” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
From the album Ghosteen (2019)
“Bright Horses” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 2019 on the album Ghosteen. Its best result is #54 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #320 indie & aaa song of 2019 and #3,243 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Bright Horses" belongs to Ghosteen, the seventeenth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which came out in October 2019 on the band's own imprint. Cave wrote the words and composed the music with Warren Ellis, and the two of them produced it, with Lance Powell recording and helping mix.
Ghosteen is a double album and the last part of a trilogy begun with Push the Sky Away and Skeleton Tree, written in the long shadow of the death of Cave's son Arthur in 2015 and recorded mostly in Malibu and West Hollywood. Cave's words on it have left straight storytelling behind for something more abstract, turning over loss and death alongside faith, empathy and optimism, and the album leans on synthesizers, loops and ambient washes with drums kept to a minimum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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