This is the second album from Grinderman - the side project of selected members from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - and they've delivered a great, dark, moody, rock album that is more aggressive and adventurous than their 2007 debut.
Longtime Cave collaborators & Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey and Jim Sclavunos pull together with the great man himself to create a sinister-sounding set that bristles with tension and an otherworldly, haunted spookiness.
These guys are getting on in age a bit, but there's something Johnny Cash-like in Cave's powerful tenor which seems to mark it as ageless, and his performance on this record is the perfect blend of confidence and outright menace. Which is always a winning combination. The album bursts out of the blocks with three great tunes - but the best is the brilliant "Heathen Child", a shuffling voodoo blues that also has a great video clip (with just the right amount of humour added too).
A great release that's well-worth a listen.
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