Since at least the second Bad Seeds record, 1985’s The Firstborn Is Dead, Cave has been alluding to kings and kingdoms. “We don’t ask who, we don’t ask why,” a choir responds to him him later in the song, “There is a kingdom in the sky.” “Albuquerque,” oddly, is about feeling happy staying put: “And we won’t get to anywhere, anytime this year, darling,” Cave sings over a weepy synth bed, adding, “unless I dream you there … unless you take me there.” On “Lavender Fields,” with its slowly undulating orchestral strings, he narrates, “I am travelling appallingly alone on a singular road,” even though he knows that with his dedicated fanbase, that has never been the case. Many of its songs are about the time-worn subject of bidding farewell to someone you love (Cave even name-checks “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” on “Old Time”), but in a surprise twist, those same tunes are also about reunions. Carnage, in some strange way, is a glimmer of optimism.
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