Word: cave
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...NIck Cave & the Bad Seeds
...roll in all its arena-mystic-pot-cloud 1970 glory; drummer Robert Donahoe must have found John Bonham’s drumset on eBay. Elsewhere, the album sounds like over-drugged outtakes from Exile on Main Street—a narrow distinction, perhaps, but one which hints at how Cave & Co. never make it clear if they are trying to say something profound musically or just rock the fuck out. (Extra credit bonus assignment: compare “Hiding All Away” with “Gimme Shelter...
...album built from an erudite classical myth (fittingly, perhaps, about a man who can’t make the music he wants) and which dabbles heavily in pagan-bucolic imagery: “The fox chases the rabbit round / the rabbit hides beneath the ground” Cave liltingly observes in “Breathless.” Yet the overall effect is convincing, if at times a little benign; Cave manages to blend convention and allusion seamlessly enough to make this a very spiffy and intriguing album...
...show which suggests the soaring escarpments and sweeping floodplains of western Arnhem Land, "Crossing Country" is more like entering a darkened cave...
...vast underground spaces the exhibition commands at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until Dec. 12, or with the subterranean sheen of its bronzed walls, and more to do with the art. In the first of the rooms, figures flare up like handprints sprayed in ocher across cave walls. But mostly they dance. These figures are the mimih, the devilish rock spirits that are often seen cavorting with Dionysian glee. Well may they be mirthful...