Music of the Week is a weekly column from Consequence that highlights the most recent and biggest new tracks every week. Discover these new favorites and extra on our Spotify Prime Songs playlist, and for different nice songs from rising artists, try our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Nick Cave and The Dangerous Seeds return with “Wild God.”
The final followers heard from Nick Cave and The Dangerous Seeds was 2019’s Ghosteen, a contemplative, ambient-influenced mission that discovered Cave wading by waters of grief, love, and swirling synth pads. With “Wild God,” Cave and firm return surprisingly… joyful?
“It’s an advanced document, however it’s additionally deeply and joyously infectious,” Cave stated of the upcoming launch and its eponymous lead single. “There’s by no means a grasp plan once we make a document. The information quite mirror again the emotional state of the writers and musicians who performed them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it appears we’re completely satisfied.”
Upon first pay attention, “Wild God” definitely appears to embody this newfound lightness. In comparison with the meditative area that drove Ghosteen, “Wild God” is remarkably upbeat, natural, and — with the climactic, chorus-backed outro — anthemically triumphant.
After all, being Nick Cave, diving into the lyrics reveals no easy expression of happiness; he stated as a lot himself within the aforementioned quote. Somewhat, by the story of an aged man letting his recollections take over, “Wild God” speaks to the significance of working in direction of contentedness within the face of, nicely, the whole lot.
At each flip, the previous man/wild god faces loss, adversity, and struggling: rape and pillage within the retirement village, the loss of life of the woman on Jubilee Avenue (a possible callback to the Push the Sky Away observe), and winds of tyranny. And but, he’s a wild god searching for what all wild gods are looking for, winds of tyranny be damned.
“And the folks on the bottom cried, ‘When does it begin?’/ And the wild god says, ‘It begins with the center,’” Cave sings, giving our titular wild god a possibility to supply his knowledge. “And the folks on the bottom cried, ‘When does it finish?’/ And the wild God says, ‘Effectively, it relies upon, however it principally by no means ends.’”
Actually, it principally by no means ends, that being something and the whole lot that takes away one’s pleasure. However once you’re feeling lonely or blue, deliver your spirit down, make like a wild god, and discover your peace — it’s on the market. Nick Cave and The Dangerous Seeds definitely did.
— Jonah Krueger
Editorial Coordinator
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