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Podcast Episode
Season
Fourteen
number
742
Type
Album Review
Post Date
11/19/2024

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

742 Let Love In by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Let Love In

Label
Mute
Release year
1994
Producer
Tony Cohen, The Bad Seeds
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Let Love In by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a dark, poetic blend of traditional sounds and art rock, exploring love, loss, and longing

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The 1994 album Let Love In by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a masterful exploration of beauty and brutality. Blending gothic rock with bluesy undertones, Cave delivers haunting melodies with vivid, poetic lyrics. Tracks like "Do You Love Me?" and "Red Right Hand" showcase Cave's magnetic storytelling and the band's dynamic range, taking the wildness of his previous band The Birthday Party, and the noisy experimentation of fellow Aussies The Dirty Three, and utilizes it in surprisingly restrained ways. Themes of passion, despair, and redemption weave through the music, and while a few of the louder tracks break up the flow, overall the album creates a dark, immersive experience unlike anything from the decade.

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Songs in this episode

  • Intro - Red Right Hand
  • 15:55 - Do You Love Me?
  • 20:02 - Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore
  • 23:45 - Jangling Jack
  • 27:06 - Do You Love Me? (Part 2)
  • 30:48 - Thirsty Dog
  • Outro - I Let Love In

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