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With 'Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus' we have something that few could have expected - two albums that can both be regarded as self-contained masterpieces; two storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly - beautiful records that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, pethedine, poetry, panties, god, auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writers block, flowers, animals and more flowers. Nick Cave's 13th solo album is right up there with his best work despite the departure of longtime guitarist Blixa Bargeld.
Tracklist
Abattoir Blues
A1 Get Ready For Love
A2 Cannibal's Hymn
A3 Hiding All Away
A4 Messiah Ward
B1 There She Goes, My Beautiful World
B2 Nature Boy
B3 Abattoir Blues
B4 Let The Bells Ring
B5 Fable Of The Brown Ape
The Lyre Of Orpheus
C1 The Lyre Of Orpheus
C2 Breathless
C3 Babe, You Turn Me On
C4 Easy Money
D1 Supernaturally
D2 Spell
D3 Carry Me
D4 O Children