Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's CallBy 1997, The Bad Seeds were an eight man strong operation, and yet they saw fit to release this album full of extremely intimate, stripped down, confessional music. Celebrated as the band's most starkly moving work, key tracks include the single "Into My Arms" and "People Ain't No Good"

I love that about it

” and Christoph Spendel Group’s “Forever” crackle with the kind of bedroom synth warmth that could only come from the analog age

Nature and Man operate under different logics

in which the band’s entire line-up — rounded out by keyboardist Robbie Bennett

Hell Is Round The Corner and Suffocated Love merge seamlessly with a hard-rock reworking of Public Enemy's Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos and the warped soul of Abbaon Fat Tracks to create one of the 90s' most compellingly atmospheric records

reggae guitarist Dennis Bovell (aka Blackbeard) was one of the key figures on the London reggae scene of the late '70s and early '80s

It swiftly builds

this is a fascinating glimpse of Sanders's style before he wielded the unremitting fierceness of his playing with Coltrane and the modal mysticism of his later solo albums on Impulse

backing off the sober self-recognition of Me Against the World

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Where All My People conveyed memories and melancholic longing with misty slowcore balladry

as lead vocalist