“Waiting for You” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"Waiting for You" belongs to Ghosteen, the 2019 double album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave wrote the words, and he and Warren Ellis wrote the music and produced it, as they produced the album. Four names share the mix: Cave, Ellis, Andrew Dominik and Lance Powell, who also recorded it.

Ghosteen is the band's 17th studio album and the closing chapter of a trilogy with Push the Sky Away and Skeleton Tree, written after Cave lost his son Arthur in 2015. Cut mostly in Malibu and West Hollywood, it leans on synthesizers, loops and ambient washes with hardly any drums, while Cave's lyrics drift into abstraction, circling loss and death but also faith, empathy and optimism. Metacritic ranks it the best-reviewed album of the 2010s, tied with Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.

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