Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! finds Nick Cave back at the helm of his long-term band The Bad Seeds after some impressive soundtrack work--2005's The Assassination of Jesse James--and a busman's holiday in the raw, rocking Grinderman. As the title suggests, Lazarus finds Cave returning to familiar themes of God and redemption, although some of the raw poise and wild-eyed humour that resurfaced in Grinderman remains: take the opening title track, which retells the Biblical story of the resurrection of Lazarus as transposed onto the sleazy, poverty-stricken backdrop of modern-day New York City. Musically, the likes of "Moonland" and "Night of the Lotus Eaters" have a swampy feel, all skittering drums, simmering bass and smoky organ riffs; elsewhere, there are rockers that tie on dissonant guitars without losing their dissonant touch ("Lie Down Here"). Probably the album highlight comes with "We Call Upon the Author", a sprawling, "Sister Ray"-like chugger that shows off Cave's skill for magnificent, sung-shouted narratives: "Now mixamatoid kids roam the streets, we've shunned them from the greasy grind/The poor little things, they look so sad and old as they mount us from behind". --Louis Pattison
Product Description
STANDARD EDITION : Feisty 2008 album of rambunctious rock 'n' brimstone gospel ... their first in 4 years!
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are incapable of making a poor album .Dig Lazarus Dig , their 14th , doesn't break their hot trot either . Even so it's the album most in thrall to another facet of Nick Cave's muse. The Grinderman side project has infused this album with a scouring malevolence and deep and dirty ambience. It throbs with subterranean deep bass lines, brutal slashes of guitar and stick on bones percussion. The up-tempo songs have the acerbic impact of a rusty shiv while the slower numbers crawl with serpentine grace allowing Cave more space to exhort his usual bevy of words about exotic and fertile characters .
Dig Lazarus Dig , as well as being populated with Caves usual colourful array of characters is possibly his most comic album to date .Larry off the brilliant churning riff title track is some kind of celebrity flailing round American cities . "Mr Sandman The Inseminator" enters the dreams of "Little Janie" to pulsating blues bass and shivery mandocaster on "Today's Lesson". "Midnight Man" features ...well the Midnight Man to Mick Harvey's relentless equilibrating organ.
Pitter pattering conga , quivering cuica and Martyn P Casey's thumping bass usher the first person "MoonLand" while "Night Of The Lotus Eaters" has the most sepulchral bass on a Nick Cave album since "From Her To Eternity ". "Albert Goes West" goes all Jesus And Mary Chain and features man who "Had a psychotic episode on dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammonia " . The "sha la-lal la,s" at the end are great. "We Call Upon The Author" is an audacious rant against god interweaving in between funked bass, viola, poking guitars /keyboards and where Cave " feels like a vacuum cleaner!!! A complete sucker". "Hold Onto Yourself" is a more hushed affair with horror movie atmospherics and plangent organ.. "Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)" is an exhortation to some femme fatale whose leery guitar matches Caves intentions in a tale where "We've been scribbled in the margins of a story that is patently absurd".
"Jesus Of The Moon" is a lithe undulating ballad with viola and Warren Ellis's distinctive flute. More news From Nowhere" is nigh on eight minutes of bleakly comic observations where "Here comes Alina with two black eyes/ she's given her self a transfusion / she's filled herself with panda blood to avoid all the confusion ". A repetitive guitar hook and more funk edged bass propel Cave along his way.
Dig Lazarus Dig will never be my favourite Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds album. I prefer the eclectic "Henrys Dream " , the awesome "Boatmans Call " confessional or the classy lugubrious strings of "The Good Son" but this is still another terrific album. Those who prefer the wracked hollow eyed blues of his first album - before he went all cabaret (as they see it) may actually find this a return to form. I can think of very few artists around today who continue to hold my interest 14 albums in (Brian Eno , The Blue Nile , Scott Walker -though the last two are so slow to produce material I fear they will never reach fourteen -)but this band do . And they never ever disappoint .
Dig Lazarus Dig , as well as being populated with Caves usual colourful array of characters is possibly his most comic album to date .Larry off the brilliant churning riff title track is some kind of celebrity flailing round American cities . "Mr Sandman The Inseminator" enters the dreams of "Little Janie" to pulsating blues bass and shivery mandocaster on "Today's Lesson". "Midnight Man" features ...well the Midnight Man to Mick Harvey's relentless equilibrating organ.
Pitter pattering conga , quivering cuica and Martyn P Casey's thumping bass usher the first person "MoonLand" while "Night Of The Lotus Eaters" has the most sepulchral bass on a Nick Cave album since "From Her To Eternity ". "Albert Goes West" goes all Jesus And Mary Chain and features man who "Had a psychotic episode on dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammonia " . The "sha la-lal la,s" at the end are great. "We Call Upon The Author" is an audacious rant against god interweaving in between funked bass, viola, poking guitars /keyboards and where Cave " feels like a vacuum cleaner!!! A complete sucker". "Hold Onto Yourself" is a more hushed affair with horror movie atmospherics and plangent organ.. "Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)" is an exhortation to some femme fatale whose leery guitar matches Caves intentions in a tale where "We've been scribbled in the margins of a story that is patently absurd".
"Jesus Of The Moon" is a lithe undulating ballad with viola and Warren Ellis's distinctive flute. More news From Nowhere" is nigh on eight minutes of bleakly comic observations where "Here comes Alina with two black eyes/ she's given her self a transfusion / she's filled herself with panda blood to avoid all the confusion ". A repetitive guitar hook and more funk edged bass propel Cave along his way.
Dig Lazarus Dig will never be my favourite Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds album. I prefer the eclectic "Henrys Dream " , the awesome "Boatmans Call " confessional or the classy lugubrious strings of "The Good Son" but this is still another terrific album. Those who prefer the wracked hollow eyed blues of his first album - before he went all cabaret (as they see it) may actually find this a return to form. I can think of very few artists around today who continue to hold my interest 14 albums in (Brian Eno , The Blue Nile , Scott Walker -though the last two are so slow to produce material I fear they will never reach fourteen -)but this band do . And they never ever disappoint .
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The last album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, 'The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues' was amazing. Given the space of a double album we got to hear their full range from the gospel choir backed Get Ready For Love to the tender Babe, You Turn Me On. I played it again and again, consistently amazed by the sheer energy captured. I used to think Nick Cave was a bit rubbish once upon a time. I'd only seen him a couple of times, once duetting with Kylie Minogue, and to my ears he seemed to be having trouble hitting the notes. Talk about missing the point. Cave may not have the best voice in the world but, boy, does he know how to deliver a song. He also writes some of the best lyrics going, real storytelling through song, and a wicked sense of humour running through it all.
So now that the man himself has turned 50 what should we expect from the latest studio album? A maturing outlook, an album of reflection, a pipe and slippers? Of course not. This new album is a little harder in sound, influenced by last years Grinderman project. The title track gets things underway with a swagger and the risen Lazarus now in modern day New York and, by the end of the track, a dope fiend. As Cave shouts, 'He never asked to be raised up from the tomb'. Night Of The Lotus Eaters has an extraordinary bass line, reminiscent of the kind of backing Tricky used to great effect on his early albums building a sense of rhythmic unease. The same kind of repetitive beat is used on We Call Upon The Author, a lyrically adventurous rant about the very act of writing which uses one of The Bad Seeds great strengths the choral shout, the call to listeners which involves you in the music you're listening to.
It isn't all garage rock. Hold On To Yourself sounds much more like the gentle brilliance of The Lyre Of Orpheus and Jesus Of The Moon is quite beautiful, hiding an emotional 'punch in the heart' amongst its simple strings and flute. The range of playing, especially from the multi-talented Warren Ellis, is as exciting as that previous double album and what it lacks in depth it almost makes up for in brilliant lyrics and sheer sense of humour. Nick Cave has the kind of creative momentum and confidence going at the moment that bands a fraction of his age would kill for. Happy 50th!
So now that the man himself has turned 50 what should we expect from the latest studio album? A maturing outlook, an album of reflection, a pipe and slippers? Of course not. This new album is a little harder in sound, influenced by last years Grinderman project. The title track gets things underway with a swagger and the risen Lazarus now in modern day New York and, by the end of the track, a dope fiend. As Cave shouts, 'He never asked to be raised up from the tomb'. Night Of The Lotus Eaters has an extraordinary bass line, reminiscent of the kind of backing Tricky used to great effect on his early albums building a sense of rhythmic unease. The same kind of repetitive beat is used on We Call Upon The Author, a lyrically adventurous rant about the very act of writing which uses one of The Bad Seeds great strengths the choral shout, the call to listeners which involves you in the music you're listening to.
It isn't all garage rock. Hold On To Yourself sounds much more like the gentle brilliance of The Lyre Of Orpheus and Jesus Of The Moon is quite beautiful, hiding an emotional 'punch in the heart' amongst its simple strings and flute. The range of playing, especially from the multi-talented Warren Ellis, is as exciting as that previous double album and what it lacks in depth it almost makes up for in brilliant lyrics and sheer sense of humour. Nick Cave has the kind of creative momentum and confidence going at the moment that bands a fraction of his age would kill for. Happy 50th!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
After so many albums I completely fail to understand how on Earth do Nick and his Bad Seeds continue to produce such wonderful music, almost on a yearly basis.
Maybe one reason is Cave's astonishing level of energy and emotive power, that appears to grow stronger as time goes past. Whether storytelling in a semi-autobiographical fashion (More News From Nowhere) or the delightful toying with religious themes (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!) Cave is constantly inventive with lyrics that reward close listening, often with gloriously dark humour (More News From Nowhere particularly on this album).
Of course, one of the things Cave does best is the shambling, rolling tracks that sexily dash, drag, pull and push you along for minutes at a time. We Call Upon The Author fulfils that brief nicely, a sure classic along with the eponymous title track.
Oh, and if Cave's love songs do it for you, he's thrown them into the mix too.
So, no re-invention of Cave, but a continuation of the rich form that started somewhere around The Good Son and has so far not missed a beat yet.
Such a mystery then, that one great album after another and much exposure in the music press, and still the vast majority of the public have not heard of Nick Cave. This album won't change that, so we'll have to treasure him for ourselves.
Maybe one reason is Cave's astonishing level of energy and emotive power, that appears to grow stronger as time goes past. Whether storytelling in a semi-autobiographical fashion (More News From Nowhere) or the delightful toying with religious themes (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!) Cave is constantly inventive with lyrics that reward close listening, often with gloriously dark humour (More News From Nowhere particularly on this album).
Of course, one of the things Cave does best is the shambling, rolling tracks that sexily dash, drag, pull and push you along for minutes at a time. We Call Upon The Author fulfils that brief nicely, a sure classic along with the eponymous title track.
Oh, and if Cave's love songs do it for you, he's thrown them into the mix too.
So, no re-invention of Cave, but a continuation of the rich form that started somewhere around The Good Son and has so far not missed a beat yet.
Such a mystery then, that one great album after another and much exposure in the music press, and still the vast majority of the public have not heard of Nick Cave. This album won't change that, so we'll have to treasure him for ourselves.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Another Musical and Lyrical Tour De Force
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds simply go from strength to strength. Whilst Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! might not quite reach the superlative creative achievements that were No More Shall We... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Keith M
Nicks got problems....
As someone who is new to Nick Cave, I thought that 'DLD' might be an interesting place to get to know the man and his work. Read more
Published 6 months ago by os
A 'must buy'
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is the fourteenth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Marc Jones
cd review
I have a few Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums...I just thought this one fell short on some of the others..so for me...6/10
Published 17 months ago by Mr. S. C. Warburton
INTERESTING
A few weeks ago I heard the title track of this CD on 'The Last Splash' on Today FM and was sufficiently impressed with what I had heard to investigate further. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2010 by Michael Nicholl
Ah, poor Larry...
Simple review this one, the album is fantastic so go and buy it! Every track is strong in its own way and the overall result pushes on from other recent stuff from Nick Cave (like... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2009 by R. Mainwaring
love this album
Made the purchase on the back of listening to the title track on the radio. It is all brilliant (apart from track 4). Read more
Published on 20 May 2009 by Mr. A. Curragh
Embarrasing
This album is so lame I got angry listening to it. There are no good songs, just efficient backing tracks for Cave's sub sixth form lyrics. Read more
Published on 11 May 2009 by P. Kelly
My most listened to album of 2009
I had never heard of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds even though this is their 14th Album. My wife had been listening to snippets of various artists tracks on Amazon and thought I... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2009 by Mr. P. J. Howe
best album to date
I bought after this after the boatman and was initially a bit disappointed. New to nick cave I was desperate to hear my second album. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2008 by rossybalboa
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192198663_.gif){kind=small}
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
