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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0093624653028 Label: Reprise / Wea Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea MPN: 46530 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Reprise / Wea Release Date: March 04, 1997 Studio: Reprise / Wea Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch. He's begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Cave actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. On The Boatman's Call, Cave's latest collection, the singer-songwriter finds room for the personal, the spiritual, and even the hopeful in his grey psyche. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion, and violin (care of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)--Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy as through emptiness. Songs like "Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" are among Cave's most self-assured and soulful to date. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Springsteen. Ultimately, The Boatman's Call sounds like Cave's attempt to poison his cake and eat it too. For a record so resolute in its denial of divinity, The Boatman's Call's obsession with religious themes and imagery might seem contradictory if they hadn't come from someone like Cave, who fancies himself a fallen angel searching for a ladder back to heaven. Where Gothic meets cathedral, there resides, for better or worse, our dark saint Nick. --Roni Sarig Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Boatman's CallNick Cave & The Bad Seeds-The Boatman's Call **** More stripped and raw than his previous work. Less accompaniment than ever before; which is both good and bad. Sometimes less is more, but there are places here which could benefit greatly from more of a backing. Though it has something to say for it, The Boatman's Call. This is refreshing in all meaning of the term. When originally released in 1997 this was like a new start for Cave. Unlike anything else he had ever released ... Read More Rating:  - An Antti Keisala Comment: Blessed In The SpiritIt's becoming somewhat of an old saying amongst the fans that Nick Cave is incapable of making bad music. When he records, it's either amazing or heavenly. This is, in my books and in those of many, the most heavenly alongside "No More Shall We Part". Say, look for the triptych consisting of the two aforementioned albums and "Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus" and you have a pretty remarkable retrospective. As has been pointed out, whereas "Shall We Part" is a collection of songs with ... Read More Rating: - Beauty, Truth & GraceNick Cave is in my opinion the most fascinating living songwriter other than perhaps Tom Waites, PJ Harvey or Bjork...... But let me get back to Nick - this album is simply magical. The more I listen to The Boatman's Call the more I am drawn into a magical world of love, tenderness & sadness. I just love this album & it may be my very favorite of Cave's (but then I dearly love Henry's Dream, Let Love In etc...). I purchased this CD as soon as it was released & it was an epiphany ... Read More Rating:  - Alas, no masterpiece from the masterSometimes a record, book or movie comes out that seems to get everybody excited but me. For some reason I fail to see what's so good about it. The critical praise amazes me as much as it irritates me. Nick Cave is my idol, icon and favorite mad preacher. I've tried on amazon.com here to express my feeling toward most of his albums. Most of them I liked, liked very much actually, and there really are just a few things Nick can do wrong. But with "The boatman's call" he does menage to completely ... Read More Rating: - Who is this guy, Elvis?So I saw The Proposition on Friday and bought this album Saturday. The music in the film was great and the screenwriting was tight as well so I started reading some reviews for his albums. Apparently I'm jumping on some kind of bandwagon. So be it, I hope we have a good driver. I am a hardcore Tom Waits fan so this is definitely my taste. The first time I listened to it it felt a bit cheesy but it is quickly gaining my respect. Went ahead and bought the rest of albums so I have yet ... Read More |
