Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsThe Firstborn Is Dead
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Swampy, cavernous, menacing: blues dragged through post-punk grit, like a storm gathering over the Mississippi Delta. "Tupelo" is a seven-minute flood, pounding tom-toms and Cave's preacher howl fusing Elvis's birthplace with biblical apocalypse. "Wanted Man" reworks the Dylan/Cash outlaw ballad, and the haunted closer "Blind Lemon Jefferson" sinks six minutes into death and the road. Cut at Berlin's Hansa with Flood, this is where the Bad Seeds' sound finally caught fire. Play it loud and let it haunt you.