Após alguns anos em que se dedicou a outros projetos, Nick Cave voltou a gravar com os Bad Seeds, a banda que, com mudanças na formação, o acompanha há quatro décadas. A se julgar pelo single "Wild God", faixa título do trabalho, os fãs podem esperar um trabalho "á moda antiga" do cantor e compositor, com os músicos se fazendo presentes, ao contrário do que se ouviu nos últimos discos do australiano.
Tanto "Skeleton Tree" (2016), quanto "Ghosteen" (2019) foram marcados por canções mais experimentais e minimalistas que refletiam o estado de espírito do compositor - ele perdeu um filho tragicamente em 2015. Mesmo creditados ao cantor e banda, os álbuns soam diferentes de tudo que Cave já fez em sua carreira.
Cave ainda lançou um LP ao lado de Warren Ellis, seu colaborador mais constante neste século, "Carnage", de 2021. Os dois trabalham também compondo trilhas sonoras para filmes, séries e documentários - a cinebiografia de Amy Winehouse que estreia em breve teve a música escrita pela dupla.
Ellis, toca vários instrumentos nos Bad Seeds, especialmente teclados, e é o parceiro de Nick na autoria da nova música. "Wild God" será lançado no dia 30 de agosto.
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Wild God (Nick Cave, Warren Ellis)
Once upon a time a wild god zoomed All through his memory in which he was entombed
It was rape and pillage in the retirement village But in his mind he was a man of great virtue and courage
And he flew out the window with his long trailing hair And the smoke from the bodies went straight up in the air
He was a wild god searching for what all wild gods are searching for And he flew through the dying city like a prehistoric bird
He went searching for the girl down on Jubilee Street But she died in a bedset in nineteen-ninety three
So he flew to the top of the world and looked around And said "Where are my people where are my people to bring your spirit down"
A wild god searching for a faraway girl Who was basically a mirage but nevertheless loomed large
She would hang under the rail as he blew round the room And make love with a kind of efficient gloom
And the people on the ground cried "When does it start? " And the wild god says "It starts with a heart, with a heart with a heart, with a heart"
And the people on the ground cried "When does it end? " And the wild god says "Well, it depends but it mostly never ends"
'Cause I'm a wild god flying and a wild god swimming And an old sick god dying and crying and singing
Bring your spirit down We're wild gods, baby, we're wild gods Yeah, bring your spirit down Well, he's moving through the flames of anarchy And he's moving through the winds of tyranny And the sweet, sweet tears of liberty moving round the world
He's moving through your body like a prehistoric bird He's moving round the world Oh lord, well, if you're feeling lonely and if you're feeling blue And if you just don't know what to do Bring your spirit down
We're wild gods, baby, we're wild gods I'm a wild god, baby, I'm a wild god Oh, here we go, we're going to the cradle of Africa we're going to Russia, we're going to China to the United States of America Moving round the world, yeah moving like a great big beautiful bird We're moving round the world, yeah
And he's swimming at the end of the rotting pier He swims to the end of his rotting idea swim to the hymn, swim to the prayer and bring your spirit down I'm a wild god, baby, I'm a wild god Well, here we go, yeah, here we go Sem tradução cadastrada
