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and murder ballads are what Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds deliver. The legendary Australian singer and his band were never averse to dark subject matter, but on this album, every song but one has a ...

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish ...