It's fitting that on the twentieth anniversary of the first text message being sent, gloom-lords Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release a brand new single called 'We No Who U R'. Was it planned? Are they being ironic? Is it a coincidence? Most likely the latter, although it would be lovely to think that the gothic overloards end their text messages to each other with "lol x". The track is taken from the band's fifteenth studio album 'Push The Sky Away' which will hit UK stores on February 18th. Devoted followers of Cave and his various projects will generally concede that his work with The Bad Seeds comes top of the pile. Having only heard one song we can pretty much guarantee that the critics will be hurling superlatives at it like bricks at a Nick Griffin stoning party.
Unsurprisingly given the light-natured txt spk, used in the single's title, 'We No Who U R' is hardly full of the joys of spring, nor is it the growling, nocturnal, werewolf-rock that they have put forward in the past. There's no grand entry or blacker than black guitars in sight, no this first taster is a ballad built around little more than some pedestrian bass and piano, yet this isn't a cause for disappointment. Cave and co. know as well as anyone how to create atmosphere and transform just about anything into a haunting and emotive masterpiece. So no whiskey-soaked Grinderman-style blues-rock just yet, but a typically mesmerising track of a different variety, because as we know, there are few out there who can create ballads as powerful and emotive as this lot.
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