Album Review

'Ghosteen' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is as harrowing as it is beautiful

At times listening to this double LP is like reading letters written in excoriating pain and sadness, raw and unfiltered, writes Andrew Donaldson

27 October 2019 - 00:00 By Andrew Donaldson

It's October, it's Halloween, so it must be Nick Cave who, with his band, The Bad Seeds, has produced the most haunted, hallucinatory album of the year...

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