Led by Nick Cave's brilliantly arch and melancholic songwriting, Australian
post-punk, art-rock outlaws The Bad Seeds found themselves at a crossroads in
2006. Having evolved from the sprawling angst of the Birthday Party into the
dark, romantic, bluesy beauty of the murder ballads and the Boatman's Call
album, key members Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos and Martyn Casey went in
search of a new direction on the promise that Cave wouldn't write about
religion. They emerged from the studio as Grinderman, a grizzled, sleazy rock
behemoth, telling tales of lust and doom, while gene...