BBC Review
...quite unlike Cave's usual Bad Seed fare.
Chris Long2006
A look at the synopsis of Nick Cave's plot for The Proposition - riddled as it is with violence, loss, revenge and brutal Victorian Outback reality - will seem all too familiar to fans of the tall Australian's musical oeuvre.
Yet this collection of taut, haunting half-songs, hymns and laments proves to be quite unlike Cave's usual Bad Seed fare. This is, in part, down to the involvement of the brilliant Warren Ellis.
Hidden among the twisting bleak strings and echoed piano the pair even manage to nail in a couple of fully made pieces - notably the redemption-filled "Rider Song" - before they go riding off in a cloud of understated dust.
The topics may be the same, but this time round, they're discussed with a sigh, not a scream, and are all the more striking for it.
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