It is probably fitting that the academic I contacted to discuss Nick Cave was Tanya Dalziell, a professor of English and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. For nearly 45 years now, her charcoal-voiced fellow countryman—besuited in black and proffering bouquets of flowers from the pit—has been offering us songs of love and hate. There are rather more of the former on his ecstatic eighteenth studio album, Wild God, which Cave has just begun touring in Europe and the British Isles with the full complement of Bad Seeds. In early 2025, he will cross the Atlantic for a clutch of North America dates.
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