NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus 2LP Folk dramatic in an Old Hollywood

dramatic in an Old Hollywood manner

with filthy breakdowns

'One Day It'll All Be You' is a complete shock to the system - it's the classic punk/hardcore base strung out on a clothesline

A towering tag-team of off-of-the-top-rope pun rock

now working in tandem with psych powerhouse Levitation and their label The Reverberation Appreciation Society

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus 2LP Folk dramatic in an Old HollywoodEvery double album comes with the cursed suggestion: maybe they should have trimmed it down into one single record? Which is almost always true. Almost. But not always. What makes this pairing so extraordinary is that its not a legitimate double album whatsoever, rather two separate masterpieces sold as one, distinctive from each other, each calculated only to balance their respective colleague out. Abattoir Blues is the vigorously spirited partner,