Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) - CARNAGE [CD]

Release Date: 18th June 2021
Genre: Rock

Carnage is a new album by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, recorded over a period of weeks during lockdown.

Although the pair have composed & recorded many soundtracks together, and Ellis is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, this is the first time they have released an entire album of songs as a duo.

Cave describes the album as “a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe.”

“Making Carnage was an accelerated process of intense creativity,” says Ellis, “the eight songs were there in one form or another within the first two and a half days.”

Cave & Ellis’ sonic and lyrical adventurism continues apace on Carnage, an album that emerged almost by accident out of the downtime created by the long, anxious, global emergency. Carnage is a record for these uncertain times - one shot through with moments of distilled beauty and that resonates with an almost defiant sense of hope.

Spec:
1 x CD - on body printing tbc matt varnish Capacity CD Outer Sleeve - made up on uncoated side of 300gsm OR 350gsm board - Printing 2 pantone colours one side and debossed CD Inner Sleeve - made up on uncoated side of 250gsm board - printing CMYK one side CD Booklet - 24 pages, Paper TBC - printing CMYK throughout, saddle stitched

Standard weight black vinyl with CMYK printed paper labels Capacity LP Outer Sleeve - made up on uncoated side of 350gsm board - Printing 2 pantone colours one side and debossed LP Inner Sleeve - made up on uncoated side of 250gsm board - printing CMYK one side LP Booklet - 24 pages, Paper TBC - printing CMYK throughout, saddle stitched

Tracks: Hand of God / Old Time / Carnage / White Elephant / Albuquerque / Lavender Fields / Shattered Ground / Balcony Man