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The Boatman's Call by: Nick Cave List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.98 You Save: £7.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5016025611423 Label: Mute Manufacturer: Mute Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mute Release Date: March 03, 1997 Studio: Mute Sales Rank: 1241 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch. He has begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Nick actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. On The Boatman's Call, the singer-songwriter finds room for the personal, the spiritual and even the hopeful in his grey psyche. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion and violin (courtesy of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)- -Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy than through emptiness. Songs like "Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" are among Cave's most self-assured and soulful to date. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Bruce Springsteen. Ultimately, The Boatman's Call sounds like Cave's attempt to poison his cake and eat it too. For a record so resolute in its denial of divinity, its obsession with religious themes and imagery might seem contradictory if they hadn't come from someone like Cave, who fancies himself a fallen angel searching for a ladder back to heaven. Where Gothic meets cathedral, there resides, for better or worse, our dark saint Nick. -- Roni Sarig Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Love HurtsGoodness. A featherlight touch on the piano, unobtrusive backing by the Seeds, plaintive violins... is this really the same people who romped through songs like 'Loverman' and 'Stagger Lee'? Those in the know (who know these things, you know) claim this album is the result of Cave's break-up with PJ Harvey (but you knew that). If so, the grounding of all these songs in reality certainly adds to the poignancy. True tales or not however, this is full of richly detailed, melodic heartbreak. Nick Cave has always written songs of remarkably high quality, but here he delivers a break-up album that stands toe-to-toe with the finest in the genre; Blood On The Tracks, Heartbreaker, Blue, No More Your Lover, Gentlemen... and The Boatman's ... Read More: Rating: - Perfect of courseI first really got in to Nick Cave when he bought out 'The Good Son' in 89 and although I'd strutted my stuff on numerous occasions to his earlier 'Birthday Party' stuff, indeed that old chestnut 'release the bats'. However, it was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds that really made a mark on me, and it was that experience that led me to go out and buy his previous 88 album 'Tender Prey'....and quite honestly, I've not looked back since. All Nick Cave's stuff has been largely without fault in my eyes and the 'Boatmans Call' is probably my fave, with maybe 'Let Love In' occasionally slipping in to first place, depending on where my heads at. Nothing more needs to be said really....this Album is a great journey while Nick Cave couldn't, it seems, put a foot wrong ... Read More: Rating: - dark slant on the human physcheI'm not going to bore you with a sophisticated coffee table critique that actually says little and bores you to tears. But I would say that if you are in to music with a realistic edge, with a tune, but a dark slant on the human physche, then this album's a must. I think it's superb. Rating: - ExquisiteThis album is beautiful; exquisite. It contains the kind of emotional honesty and philosophising that comes across as hokey and ham-fisted when attempted by inferior songwriters. With Nick Cave, it lifts itself into the stratosphere with it's own beauty. Cave's clear, vulnerable voice perfectly matches his wistfully contemplative lyrics, and beautiful pianos complete the entire effect, of beauty and effortless splendour. This album has 100% converted me to this thoughtful, talented artist. Rating:  - Worth a place in your CD collectionI purchased this album after hearing the inspirational "People ain't no good". The rest of the album proves similarly successful, Cave's powerful lyrics combining with some well-executed music to produce a stunning album. A few tracks flew straight over my head, but for the most this is a very pleasing listen. |
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