NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – INTO MY ARMS (MUTE)
Running heavy on restrained emotion this was a Nick Cave arrangement unlike any other. Arriving as the first single from the new Bad Seeds’ record The Boatman’s Call this song displayed a brand new level of maturity in composition as a sparse and minimal execution laid path for an extraordinary exhuming of emotion from Cave declaring a degree of understanding and empathy that would not ordinarily have been expected from such a raging faucet of a front man.
This was the song that Cave played at the funeral of Michael Hutchence and refused to have filmed, perhaps fearful that it might become a young person’s equivalent of “Candle In The Wind”. The gesture/request would display/suggest the weight and importance that the song holds for Cave.
With a first line that goes “I don’t believe in an interventionist God” this is serious as Cave rides solo behind the piano save for a bassline from Martyn Casey, the only other Bad Seed featured on this record.
In many ways I feel with this song Cave manages to capture on record just what it feels like to be in love, to hold an ultimate affection for one person and to have ever desire fulfilled and feel content in the knowledge that it holds a definite meaning.
This is how life works out sometimes.
Thesaurus moment: hold.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Mute
Running heavy on restrained emotion this was a Nick Cave arrangement unlike any other. Arriving as the first single from the new Bad Seeds’ record The Boatman’s Call this song displayed a brand new level of maturity in composition as a sparse and minimal execution laid path for an extraordinary exhuming of emotion from Cave declaring a degree of understanding and empathy that would not ordinarily have been expected from such a raging faucet of a front man.
This was the song that Cave played at the funeral of Michael Hutchence and refused to have filmed, perhaps fearful that it might become a young person’s equivalent of “Candle In The Wind”. The gesture/request would display/suggest the weight and importance that the song holds for Cave.
With a first line that goes “I don’t believe in an interventionist God” this is serious as Cave rides solo behind the piano save for a bassline from Martyn Casey, the only other Bad Seed featured on this record.
In many ways I feel with this song Cave manages to capture on record just what it feels like to be in love, to hold an ultimate affection for one person and to have ever desire fulfilled and feel content in the knowledge that it holds a definite meaning.
This is how life works out sometimes.
Thesaurus moment: hold.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Mute
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