Ellis was the bearded wild man guiding the band into unforeseen waters but also the musical wizard inching them towards a sound that was quieter, more challenging, and more adventurous all at once. Cave’s apocalyptic shaman aged into a wiser, more empathetic character. From the outside, it’s often seemed like a dream partnership. Around that same time, he and Ellis began scoring movies together, which started a process in which Ellis’ influence became more and more profound on Bad Seeds albums and Cave’s output overall. Though Ellis was a full-time Bad Seed by the end of the ’90s, it was in the ’00s that he and Cave began working together more closely, and the result has been a striking late-career string of albums that at the very least rival the peaks of Bad Seeds history, and often times feel like the best work any of these people have done.Ī line was conveniently drawn in 2005, when Cave released the first B-Sides And Rarities compilation, collecting loose ends from the first 20-odd years of the Bad Seeds’ existence.
In the last 15 years or so, the direction has been partially shaped by Warren Ellis. The band has mutated time and time again, with different aesthetics and voices coming to the fore. In the nearly 40 years since From Her To Eternity, there have been many chapters for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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