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No Pussy Blues
Artist: Grinderman
Album: Grinderman
Label: Anti Records
Genre: Alternative/Punk
Styles: Garage Rock
Album Review
Nick Cave sows some of his Bad Seeds for his newest project.
In recent years, Nick Cave has grappled with the writer's block that sobering up wrought upon him, and ultimately triumphed, enforcing a "let's go to work" regime in his new home, Brighton, complete with an office visited at regular business hours. The gambit worked: With 2004's Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus double-whammy, there was a real sense of his digging deep to create a new world, both in music and words.
With the inaccessible Seeds decamped back to Australia, etc., he has kept himself moving by reconvening the so-called Micro-Seeds (Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos and Martyn Casey), but this time the quartet has become something else — Grinderman — a release, an intentionally runtish offshoot of the main band.
On this debut record, Cave is liberated from his "besuited pianist" persona. Instead, he plays electric guitar, at which he is, to be frank, a novice. The sound is accordingly loose, often primordially brutal — the words, too. "We are sick and tired of all the self-serving grieving," he sings on "Go Tell the Women." "All we wanted is a little consensual rape in the afternoon, and maybe a bit more in the evening." "No Pussy Blues," meanwhile, unleashes all the pent-up sexual energy one might worriedly anticipate from its title, and then some.
Grinderman, then, proves this: at close on 50, some inexplicable and exhilarating fire still burns in Nick Cave. Bizarrely, for such a typecast doom merchant, he gives hope to us all!
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