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On The Boatman's Call, Cave's latest collection, the singer-songwriter finds room for the personal, the spiritual, and even the hopeful in his grey psyche. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion, and violin (care of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)--Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy as through emptiness. Songs like "Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" are among Cave's most self-assured and soulful to date. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Springsteen.
Ultimately, The Boatman's Call sounds like Cave's attempt to poison his cake and eat it too. For a record so resolute in its denial of divinity, The Boatman's Call's obsession with religious themes and imagery might seem contradictory if they hadn't come from someone like Cave, who fancies himself a fallen angel searching for a ladder back to heaven. Where Gothic meets cathedral, there resides, for better or worse, our dark saint Nick. --Roni Sarig
| ARTIST: | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Brothers |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 093624653028 |
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Customer Reviews of The Boatman's Call
Life is bittersweet "The Boatman's Call" is an amazing record. If anyone has their doubts about Nick Cave as I did, they need to hear this record. Nick Cave the God of sorrowful music explores God, Love and of course sadness but instead this time we are offered a record that tries to move forward from the bitter past and looks for hope in religion and love.
My first impression of Nick Cave was buying the "Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds" album which left me confused and a bit frightened. There were no doubt, some glorious songs but I had trouble taking in Nick Cave's early work. I thought perhaps it was because of the selection of the compilation and that I needed a full album to enjoy his work. I bought "The Boatman's Call" which made me realize Nick Cave's greatness and spawned an interest in him.
Most of the songs on this album are piano-solo slow jazz based. It opens with Nick Cave's best single "Into My Arms" and my personal favorite on the album, "Lime-Tree Arbour". "People 'Aint No Good" is a bit redundant and boring at first but after a few listens becomes enjoyable. "Brompton Oratory" is another strong song that has a Church organ infuelnce. "There Is A Kingdom" which brings to mind, a church hymn. "(Are You) The One That I've Been Looking For?" reminds me of material from the album, "The Good Son". Songs that are a little short of masterpieces. "West Country Girl" sets the mood into an Irish Celtic and shifts from the piano-jazz style throughout the beginning of the record. The album ends with the poetry reciting "Green Eyes" and the listener is hopefully left breathless.
"The Boatman's Call" is an album for empty souls yearning for joy and happiness; that have too longed suffered in a big mean world.
Too Subdued
I was introduced to the music of Nick Cave a little over a year ago but have only begun to really appreciate him over the last four months.
Murder Ballads made me a solid fan, and I have since heard and enjoyed most of his other work. The Boatman's Call will come as a surprise to fans who expect the sneering, snarling Nick Cave we know best. Here is a very different side of Nick Cave. Compared to albums past, it is almost uniformly somber and sullen. That's not to say it doesn't have its good points.
Cave's piano, as always, is excellent as are his lyrics. My favorites are Into My Arms, Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?, West Country Girl, and Idiot Prayer. The only song I really dislike is the half-spoken Green Eyes which closes out the album.
If you are one, like me, who prefers the reckless energy of Henry's Dream or Let Love In, you may find that this is too subdued. But if you are one who likes the introspective style of No More Shall We Part, then you should find The Boatman's Call to be much to your liking.
No "Henry's Dream"
I've been a huge fan of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since First Born Dead came out (twenty years or so ago). Nearly all of his albums since that time have been worth having (with Henry's Dream being his masterwork). So Boatman's Call was one of the biggest disappointments to me when it came out. First of all, the quality of the recording and arrangements is poor. Cave seemed to ditch his band for a number of the songs. He sounds like he recorded this album in his bedroom with little more than a drum machine and a Casio keyboard. The Bad Seeds are really an incredible band, and while I won't say Cave is nothing without them, he certainly is diminished without them.
But the real kicker is that the songs just aren't up to his usual quality. "People Ain't No Good" is the highlight of the album and the song is worth hearing, but it's just not worth buying this CD just to get it. The remainder of the songs are mediocre at best. I know that other reviewers have liked this album, but I think they're probably die-hard Cave fans. This is not a good album for a new comer to start with. If you don't already own Henry's Dream, Murder Ballads, or First Born Dead, start with those albums--then move on to From Her to Eternity and Tender Prey. If you still want more, than you're probably ready to start sampling his other albums. To my ears, Boatman's Call and Let Love In are the real stinkers in his catalog. I'd recommend albums by his earlier band The Birthday Party over either of these two.
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