wanted to be your superman, but i turned out such a jerk (long overdue rekkid reviews, vol.2!)

this may well be the shortest review i will ever write.

it will be so simply because any and all gushing i might wish to do about this album would be completely surpassed by your own were you to buy it and listen to it yourself, assuming you haven't done so already.

therefore? i will unabashedly say you should go buy Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds' Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus double album RIGHT NOW.

not later. now.

it is lovely to see that they've still got it in them, even without Blixa. and while the fifteen minute not-quite-Birthday-Party-but-should've-been "Babe, I'm On Fire" off of Nocturama was utterly BRILLIANT, and possibly the most brilliant singular moment they've ever had as a band, the rest of that album may give you pause when contemplating future Bad Seeds projects.

don't let it. it is only trying to trick you.

go get this album. if you're bothering to read this review with even the smallest glimmer of passing interest, i'm pretty certain you won't be sorry.