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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama (Mute)
Nick Cave’s voice may still tremble with the wrath of the gods but, with this twelfth album, there are signs that he’s mellowed. Nocturama is mostly ruled by dark ballads, steeped in nostalgia and elegantly orchestrated with saddened cellos, Keith Jarrett-y pianos, haunting Hammonds, horns and steel guitars. Thankfully, however, songs like the growling Dead Man In My Bed and the fantastic scorcher, Babe, I’m On Fire, grumbling with the furious thunder of his earlier music, prove a raging fire still burns in Cave’s bottomless pit of a belly. Alexia Loundras 30 January 02

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