Grinderman 2 is the second album from Nick Cave's side-project band Grinderman, aptly named I feel. The three year gap between the first album felt like a liftetime, and I found myself pining for Cave's harsh yet dulcet tones to stroke my ear. Given I could listen to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to satisfy my craving, but for those of you who haven't yet listened to Grinderman, it is not the same.
Grinderman 2 revisits the treasured wild and rusty feel of Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey and Jim Sclavunos, and once past the intial excitement of listening to the new album for the first time, I deliberated whether it was better than Grinderman, released in 2007.
"Heathen Child" accommodates Cave's ferocity and allows him to play around with his natural naughtiness and the ambiguity of the lyrics lends the term 'child' to be perceived in a variety of ways - which ever way it's apprehended, his sexuality through music can not go unnoticed.
The final track of the album "Bellringer Blues" takes the listener on the hazy journey with Cave, and whilst the sound appears raw and stripped down, I can't help but notice an intensity that was before absent. Perhaps like a fine wine, the whole band gets better with age.
My favourite Aussie and honorary English man has done it again, and is better the second time around.
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