Tender prey

"Rather than simply redoing what they'd already done, Nick Cave and company took their striking musical fusions to deeper and higher levels all around, with fantastic consequences. The album boldly starts out with an undisputed Cave masterpiece — "The Mercy Seat," a chilling self-portrait of a prisoner about to be executed that compares the electric chair with the throne of God".

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"The quality of the remastering is noticable; the seething bassline of 'Up Jumped The Devil' has been brought front and centre where it truly belongs, the delightfully dischordant guitar work of Bilxa Bargeld clangs it's way all over twisted murder ballad lovesong 'Deanna' as God originally intended - but the songwriting is so strong that this record would sound good being played on the back of a bus through shitty mobile phone speakers".

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