Nick Cave

Nick Cave has made a cottage industry out of theatrical gloom for the past 15 years, artfully
plunging into the depths of a reservoir of despair that many alternative rockers couldn't
even dream of fathoming. But never before have manic elements elevated Cave's shtick to
art as on Murder Ballads. In a way, the album is an author-subject synergy reminiscent of
Linda Ronstadt's Canciones de Mi Padre, only Cave's realm is much, much darker,... More >