Nick Cave returns this year with the follow-up to the highly underrated self-titled debut of his band Grinderman. This album picks up where the last one left off and starts off with enough explosive force on opening track "Mickey Mouse & The Goodbye Man". It begins by throwing you off with some slow building synthesizer before launching into an all-out guitar assault. Cave embraces the sound of guitars fuzzed-out to the max and really rocks it hard on this record. You'll even find a classic swamp-rock stomper in the form of the brilliant "When My Baby Comes". Cave also shows his gentler side, performing with acoustic guitars on the track "What I Know" and then takes it away again with tongue-in-cheek sexual innuendos in tracks like "Heathen Child" while "Palaces Of Montezuma" features a much more Bad Seeds sound with its tambourine and "ooh"-ing chorus melody. This follow-up album is a much tighter package than before as Grinderman have cleaned up their sound to be a lot tighter and yet somehow seem scuzzier all at the same time. The album is driven by its thundering bass and is saturated in wailing guitar loops, hooks and melodies. Many reviewers have seen Cave's Grinderman project as a bit of a mid-life crisis band but he proves them all wrong with this much more focused return which is dripping with ferocity.
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