Push the Sky Away Tracklist
The 15th studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away saw the band taking a new direction. Released five years after the rock-influenced Dig, Lazarus, Dig!, it was their first album not to feature founding member Mick Harvey.
Lyrically, the album moves away from the narrative-focused songs of before and delivers more fractured, poetic images. It takes inspiration from Cave’s adopted hometown of Brighton in songs like “Water’s Edge”, and muses on modern technology and the 21st century in songs like “We No Who U R” and “Higgs Boson Blues”. Cave was inspired in part by late-night Wikipedia binges.
Musically the album is very different to its predecessors, with sparse arrangements and frequent use of synths by Warren Ellis. This style would be developed on the following album, 2016’s Skeleton Tree.
