Album reviews: Nick Cave returns with a dark and comforting offering

Carnage has the Australian singer offering a worthy follow-up to Ghosteen, while 1990s indie outfit Arab Strap have possibly produced their best album yet 
Album reviews: Nick Cave returns with a dark and comforting offering

Nick Cave has just released Carnage. 

Thu, 04 Mar, 2021 - 20:30
Ed Power

Nick Cave - Carnage ****

One of the great surprises of Nick Cave’s late-stage career has been the old warhorse’s willingness to step beyond his somewhat hammy “fallen preacherman” persona and show a more vulnerable side. The results were extraordinary on 2019’s Ghosteen, a meditation on the death in 2015 of his 15-year-old son, Arthur.

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