Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Pros: Production, Songs, Performance, Diversity, & Cave's Vocals/Lyrics.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is a Brilliant, Snarling Masterpiece from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

Review: For more than thirty years, Nick Cave has been one of alternative music's most enduring icons. From his days in the Birthday Party from the early 70s until their dissolution in 1984 where Cave formed a new band called the Bad Seeds. Cave along with ...

Pros: He's found his balls again. AND his sense of experimentation and literary voice. WOO-HOO!

Cons: Whatever cons there are simply don't deserve mentioning. Nick's back and that's what matters.

The Bottom Line: Over twenty years in, Cave shows that he can alter his course entirely and breathe new life into his usual way of doing things. It even rocks, by golly.

Review: For several years Nick Cave allowed his art to fall into the hands of the sentimentalism that was no doubt a byproduct of his junkie guilt. Nick is and always has been a literate and talented songwriter, but something was missing from everything he did ...