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The Guardian
Contemplating pain, death and suffering, rock’s former prince of darkness finds euphoria despite it all, on an album of contagious joy and thrilling melody
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The Independent
Swinging between doubt and faith, this is a record that can feel fathomless but leaves you buoyant
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musicOMH
Constructed out of some of their most thrilling material in decades, this work is open, honest, raw, impassioned and vital
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DIY
It is genuinely moving to hear the one-time Prince of Darkness finding so much beauty in the world around him, even after everything life has thrown at him in recent years
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PopMatters
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Wild God teems with creative ambitions and sacred content. An ode to the surprise of joy, it is an audacious, reaching record
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Clash
There’s a quiet, steady faith apparent in ‘Wild God’, a simple wonder that feels unique in modern songwriting, a beatific glow that lingers after the final lights have been switched off
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The Line Of Best Fit
Fiercely inspired Wild God has it all
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Paste Magazine
It just might be one of the best things Cave has ever put to tape. Two minutes. Sometimes that's all it takes
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Northern Transmissions
The album’s production rises to meet its thematic moments. Backing gospel choruses abound to support Cave’s harrowing voice across the record, complete with powerful orchestral arrangements to match
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Uncut
Reunited with his band, orchestrated and multiplied, Cave surfs a swelling tide of preposterous proportions. He is the wild god, a wearied charismatic presence, flitting between the songs. Nobody else sounds like this. Print edition only
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Spectrum Culture
Wild God is a startlingly open and – if understood properly – even joyful album
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Mojo
A deeply human record, the shepherd stepping away from his sermons to look for wonder and rapture. Print edition only
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The Skinny
The new album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds mixes explosive, colourful arrangements into the grayscale flavours of recent albums
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The Arts Desk
The dark intensities are leavened by something peculiar in Cave’s oeuvre: joy
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NME
Once the godfather of goth, now a freewheelin' preacher of joy, Cave elevates above the grief on this colourful 18th album
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The Irish Times
The joy after the storm
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The Observer
The Bad Seeds are back, if slightly muted, as Cave channels his grief following the death of two of his sons to often tremendous effect
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Record Collector
Cave’s remarkably fluid, forceful band has delivered another majestic thriller
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Pitchfork
On a record originally conceived as an ode to joy, Nick Cave continues to grapple with the all-consuming nature of grief. Pushed to rapturous extremes, the album sounds as haunted as it is healing
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Under The Radar
As with all Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds albums, Wild God explores the depths of human emotions through music and lyrics, with each track expressively and articulately sung by Cave
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Rolling Stone
Cave plays preacher, congregation, and god over the course of a suite of songs that are in equal measure elegiac and ecstatic
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Far Out
All told, the record is largely a unique and powerful triumph
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