Release Date: 17 November 2014
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Mute
£21.99
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus!!! Dig!!! Limited Reissue 180gram Heavyweight Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’ is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ fourteenth studio album, and was recorded in June and July 2007 at The State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, Surrey, and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove recording studios, in Chiswick, west London, and was released on March 3rd 2008.
It would also be the last album to feature founding member Mick Harvey, who left the Bad Seeds in 2009. In several interviews Cave has stated that this album would "sound like Grinderman", his side project, who had released their debut album a year earlier. In line with this rough-and-ready approach, the album was recorded in about five days, an uncommonly short period for a full-length album.
Cave wrote on his inspiration for the album: "Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatised, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ's miracles—raising a man from the dead—but I couldn't help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest. I've taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel. I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved. He believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second greatest escapologist, Harry was, Lazarus, of course, being the greatest. I wanted to create a kind of vehicle, a medium, for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires, you know, from beyond the grave."
Critical response to the album was overwhelmingly positive, with reviewers citing this as both a return to greatness and a new side of the band. A review from NME described the record as a "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" and gave it 8/10, whilst Mojo magazine proclaimed it their album of 2008.
Vinyl is heavyweight 180 Gram.
Vinyl transfer approval overseen by Mick Harvey Summer 2014, cut at Abbey Road studios.
This edition, approved personally by Nick Cave, is finally available again on it’s original format.
Featured Tracks:
1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Bad Seeds
2. Today's Lesson - Bad Seeds
3. Moonland - Nick Cave
4. Night of the Lotus Eaters - Nick Cave
5. Albert Goes West - Nick Cave
6. We Call Upon the Author - Nick Cave
7. Hold On to Yourself - Nick Cave
8. Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) - Bad Seeds
9. Jesus of the Moon - Bad Seeds
10. Midnight Man - Nick Cave
11. More News from Nowhere - Nick Cave
Release Date: 22 October 2021
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Mute/BMG
£26.99 £14.99
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Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: GHOSTEEN LTD
£22.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Bad Seed ltd
£11.99
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Format: 7inch Vinyl Single
Label: Mute
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