Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!＜限定盤＞

Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir musical inventiveness is highly disciplined. The band has never sounded better, and Cave seems to have relaxed into the hysteria of his vocal style..." Harp - "[T]hese sneering, bleary-eyed tracks have a bold potency to go with their fuzz-tone organ's pop-psychedelic fizzle and frying guitars." Mojo - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Visceral, masterful, exciting and profound, this one -- again! feels like it may be his best." Spin - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Thick with decadence, his oeuvre oozes caustic realism....A rock'n'roll fable about redemption and the pleasures of debauchery." Q - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] triumphant album....Like Bob Dylan on TIME OUT OF MIND, Cave takes time to roam the lyrical landscape he has spent his whole career mapping out..." Kerrang - "The spirited 'Albert Goes West' is typical of his sparse and elusive charm, while the title-track is as pointedly tuneful as it gets." Pitchfork - "With the emphasis on acoustic guitars and occasional blasts of electric static...[and] plenty of odd noises and lewd organs that suggest some sort of twisted take on 1960s psych and garage rock." Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Bad Seeds sound wilder than ever -- guitarist Warren Ellis damn near steals the show on the hysterically heavy-breathing 'Lie Down Here'..." Entertainment Weekly - "Cave spits out his woebegone lyrics as if he were a Holy Ghost-filled preaching machine leading the world's funkiest revival meeting." The Wire - "[T]he album focuses on lithe grooves passed from member to member....The title track and its close musical relative 'More News From Nowhere' coasts along on Velveteen riffs..." Magnet - "[T]he playful DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!! stands among his most mature albums....Quoting Iggy Pop on 'Today's Lesson' and unleashing catchy hooks on the chrous to 'Lie Down Her (& Be My Girl)." The Word - "DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! majors on talking-blues ruminations that are mostly fearsome and sometimes very funny: the title track is an exploration of the Lazarus myth performed in a style that combines Jack Kerouac and Mark E Smith." Rolling Stone - Ranked #35 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "[T]he best bang and harangue since Cave's garage quartet Grinderman." Mojo - Ranked #5 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[T]his is modern rock'n'roll at its most switched-on and alive." Spin - Ranked #18 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "Caked with organ buzz and psych guitar spray, LAZARUS recalls Grinderman's back-alley blare..." Clash - Ranked #37 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" -- "[I]t only proved that years of hedonistic excess can -- sometimes -- lead to the path of blues rock heaven." Record Collector - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The group sounds absolutely comfortable in its skin, bouncing ideas around with mischievous relish..."

The fourteenth studio album from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds transports the biblical character of the title to contemporary New York, as well as drawing inspiration from escapologist Harry Houdini. Featuring the majority of his usual personnel in The Bad Seeds (including violinist Warren Ellis and organist/pianist Conway Savage), 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig' displays a rawer, more garage-inspired rock sound closer to Cave's side-project Grinderman. The lead single (and title track) displays the kind of meandering wordplay and subversive narratives that Nick Cave has become notable for.|

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