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- Summary: The surprise release for the latest full-length collaboration between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis was recorded over a week.
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- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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Feb 25, 2021‘Carnage’ is arguably Cave and Ellis’ best record since The Bad Seeds’ latter day reinvention on 2013’s ‘Push The Sky Away’, or maybe even ‘Abattoir Blues’. It’s certainly two master craftsmen at the peak of their melodramatic powers.
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Feb 25, 2021Carnage is infused with profound and almost inescapable grief. But as this particularly audacious singer-songwriter grapples with isolation, loneliness, loss and the hard emotional graft of endurance, all set against a backdrop of apocalyptic threat, the personal becomes universal. Carnage may just be the greatest lockdown album yet.
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MojoMar 19, 2021A jarring and gorgeous reminder that our suffering is neither new nor negligible. [May 2021, p.79]
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Mar 4, 2021You can chalk Carnage up as anything from a zeitgeist experiment to a flawed masterpiece, but there’s something precious and compassionate at its heart that I honestly believe will make the world a better place in its own peculiar way, beyond the scope of critical evaluation.
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Feb 25, 2021If it doesn’t feel quite as remarkable as Ghosteen, that tells you more about the previous album than the quality of Carnage: Cave and Ellis’s musical approach is still vividly alive, the dense, constantly shifting sound complementing the richness of Cave’s writing now.
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UncutMar 23, 2021Compared with the highly structured Ghosteen (a double album meditation on grief and spirituality, complete with intermission), Carnage is a more concise though no less ordered record. Much as the Bad Seeds’ songs now push into oceanic drift, Cave’s narratives move between worlds fictional and not, the horrific and the consoling. [Mar 2021, p.20]
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Apr 29, 2021It's the work of two collaborative artists who are in the midst of a later-period renaissance that has spawned powerful, evocative music that speaks to its time without being confined to the crises that sparked its creation.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 15
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Mixed: 3 out of 15
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Negative: 2 out of 15
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Mar 11, 2021no... i don’t like it at all, sorry, i don’t know why is this 93 on metacritic
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