"In "Ghosteen" Cave and his stalwart band The Bad Seeds have released what is not only the best album of the year so far but what may be among the best albums of the past 20 years and beyond. Nick is clearly still mourning the death of his young son Arthur and in doing so is confronting loss and redemption on a cosmic scale. The album is an act of faith, worship and devastation. It follows in the well-worn path of the Bodhisattva who recognizes that all life is suffering and the only way out is to not take the path alone but to bring the ones you love, the ones you've lost and the ones that need you the most with you on your journey. No one reaches nirvana unless we all reach nirvana. What is magnificent and borderline miraculous about "Ghosteen" is that it has the power to elevate your spirit and heal your burning heart and lead you on that path. I shit you not. This album is a deeply spiritual experience. I listen and I weep tears of gratitude for its very existence. Death is a teacher whose feet no one wants to sit at until someone you love dies. Let the teaching begin with Nick Cave who has sat at Death's feet and has experienced the transmission of mind between Death the master and Cave the student. In the songs of "Ghosteen" Cave is creating the tools to take down his teacher, to fuck him and the past, and to furiously ascend forward to the next level of insight and glory with his lovers safe and warm in his heart.
Turn down the lights. Ignite a candle. Burn a bowl of frankincense. Pour yourself a drink or pack a pipe full of hash. Turn up "Ghosteen". Take the trip. When its last chord is struck you will awake trembling in your mothers arms and your mother will be all of creation.
Peace will come, peace will come, peace will come."
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