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LP Vinyl – LPSEEDS14

Just as surely as the 2004 double-decker Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus was Cave's England album– steeped in imagery that's equal parts urban-miserable Dickens and pagan-pastoral Wicker Man– Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is his Americanized follow-up. He has always been interested in the darker corners of Americana, especially the Southern mythologies that informed early albums like From Her to Eternity and The Firstborn Is Dead, and Cave makes this collection an old-fashioned picaresque through exurban shopping malls, shuttered factories, and dilapidated ranches– complete with Biblical overtones (and what's a Nick Cave album without those?).