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Push the Sky Away

January 01, 1970

Push the Sky Away is the fifteenth studio album by the Australian band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 18 February 2013 on the band's own label Bad Seed Ltd.[3] Recorded at La Fabrique in southern France, with producer Nick Launay, it is the band's first album not to feature founding member Mick Harvey, who departed from the band in January 2009.[4] The release also marked the return of founding member Barry Adamson, making his first album appearance since Your Funeral... My Trial (1986), and was the last to feature keyboardist and pianist Conway Savage, prior to his death in 2018.

Push the Sky Away
Studio album by
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released18 February 2013 (2013-02-18)
RecordedDecember 2011 (2011-12)–August 2012 (2012-08) at La Fabrique in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
Genre
Length42:40
LabelBad Seed Ltd
ProducerNick Launay with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
Live at the Royal Albert Hall
(2008) 		Push the Sky Away
(2013) 		Live from KCRW
(2013)
Singles from Push the Sky Away
  1. "We No Who U R"
    Released: 3 December 2012
  2. "Jubilee Street"
    Released: 15 January 2013
  3. "Mermaids"
    Released: 20 May 2013

Recording edit

Push the Sky Away was recorded at La Fabrique, a recording studio based in a 19th-century mansion in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. It was produced by Nick Launay, who produced Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds three previous studio albums—Nocturama (2003), Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)— and Grinderman's two studio albums. Segments of the album's recording sessions were featured in the official trailer for Push the Sky Away, which was posted on YouTube upon the album's announcement.[5] The band entered the studio when Nick Cave had "unformed and pupal" ideas, and the band "[transformed] them into things of wonder."[6]

Founding Bad Seeds member Barry Adamson returned to the fold during the album's recording sessions, marking his first recording appearance since Your Funeral... My Trial (1986). Reflecting on the experience, Barry noted: "It was very weird. Mick Harvey had left and there was Warren [Ellis] and Thomas [Wydler] and Jim Sclavunos - and Martyn [P. Casey] - and none of them were Bad Seeds when I was a Bad Seed, yet they'd all been in the band for much longer than me. I don't mean to sound derogatory, but it was like it had normalised. Nick Cave had found another way. He was using convention and turning it on its head. That's what got me. I thought, 'Ah, he's still fucking doing it. He's still fucking doing it.'"[7]

The process of the recording was documented in the documentary, 20,000 Days on Earth, released on September 17, 2014.

Composition edit

Describing Push the Sky Away in the album's press release, Nick Cave said "if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat."[8] The songs on the album were written over the course of twelve months and "took form in a modest notebook" kept by Cave. The notebook contained notes on the album's songs, which were composed from "Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic English Wikipedia entries 'whether they're true or not'."[8] The song We Real Cool also mentions Wikipedia by name. According to Cave, the songs illustrate how the internet has influenced "significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities" and "question how we might recognise and assign weight to what's genuinely important."[8]

Due to health problems longtime drummer Thomas Wydler was unable to tour with the band in support of the album. Cave stated: "In some ways the new album is carried by [Wydler] and his participation. It's very sad that he can´t do the tour because of health reasons. That is a hard blow for us. He is the sound of this album."[9]

Packaging edit

The cover image shows Cave opening a window shutter to illuminate his naked wife, Susie Bick, and was shot by Dominique Issermann in the couple's own bedroom.[10] The photograph was taken while Issermann was at Cave and Bick's home during a photo shoot for a fashion magazine that Bick was modelling for. Cave was assisting with the shoot and was asked by Issermann to open the shutters to let in more light. Bick was in the middle of changing and decided to drop her robe as Cave was opening up the shutters and Issermann impulsively decided to capture the scene. Cave and Bick were very pleased with how the photo came out and, after consulting with his bandmates and his office, elected to use it as the album cover.[11]

Release edit

Push the Sky Away was announced for release on 27 November 2012. Released on 18 February 2013,[8] the album was made available on standard CD, LP, digital download, limited edition deluxe CD/DVD and a "Super Deluxe" box set.[8] The album's lead single, "We No Who U R", was released as a digital download on 3 December and its second single, "Jubilee Street", was released on 15 January 2013. Push the Sky Away sold 15,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States.[12]

Tour edit

Prior to the album's announcement, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds disclosed plans to perform at Humphrey's Concerts By the Sea in San Diego, California 16 April 2013.[13] The announcement sparked rumours that the band would also perform at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival,[13][14] which was later confirmed. On 3 December 2012, the band announced an Australian and North American tour accompanying Push the Sky Away's release. The six-date Australian leg of the tour commenced on 26 February 2013 in Sydney and concluded on 8 March in Brisbane,[15] and the twelve-date North American leg commenced on 14 March in Dallas, Texas and concluded on 3 April in Denver, Colorado.[16] Several dates at major European festivals were later announced, including performances at Primavera Sound in Spain,[17] NorthSide Festival in Denmark,[18] Exit Festival in Serbia and Greenville Music Festival in Germany.[19]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performed a one-off debut of Push the Sky Away in its entirety at Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California on 21 February 2013. The performance was streamed live on YouTube and made available for stream for an additional 24 hours.[20]

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.1/10[21]
Metacritic81/100[22]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [23]
The A.V. ClubB−[24]
Entertainment WeeklyA[25]
The Guardian     [26]
The Independent     [27]
Los Angeles Times    [28]
NME9/10[29]
Pitchfork8.0/10[1]
Rolling Stone     [30]
Spin8/10[2]

Push the Sky Away was acclaimed by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 46 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[22] Allmusic rated Push the Sky Away three and a half out of five stars and reviewer Thom Jurek said the "songs contain simple melodies and arrangements that offer the appearance of vulnerability and tenderness [but] it is inside this framework that they eventually reveal their sharp fangs and malcontent."[23] Writing for The A.V. Club, Jason Heller asserted that the album's "oppressively hollow minimalism is both its biggest drawback and its greatest strength", noted the lack of "chemistry" in Mick Harvey's absence, and gave it a B− grade.[24] BBC Music writer James Skinner referred to the album as "certainly a far stranger, subtler record than that last Bad Seeds outing" and "an LP as weighty, compelling and brilliant as The Bad Seeds have ever produced."[31] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune called Push the Sky Away "an album without any shocking turns" but said "that 'tiny, trembling heart beat,' as Cave calls it, starts to sound louder with each listen" in his three out of four star review.[32] In his review for The Guardian, Dave Simpson awarded the album four out of five stars, described it as "funeral-paced songs and stripped-down music that calls to mind Leonard Cohen fronting James Blake minimalism" and drew comparisons between the album and The Boatman's Call (1997).[26]

Los Angeles Times' reviewer Randall Roberts said Push the Sky Away "is not a work to be appreciated casually. Cave delves into a meandering, meditative world that rarely offers the kind of hooks or tethers that dictate toe-tapping singalongs" in his three out of four star review.[28] Writing for the NME, Jenny Stevens described the album as a "majestic and desolate masterpiece" and noted that the band "merges the experimentation and freedom of their side projects with Cave's most tender songcraft", rating the album nine out of ten.[29] Pitchfork rated Push the Sky Away eight out of ten and reviewer Stuart Berman praised its "foggy reveries built upon ominously rumbling bass lines, twitchy rhythmic tics, and hushed-voice intimations", adding "it may not erupt with same force as the Bad Seeds' stormiest gestures, but the underlying menace fuelling it remains."[1]

In his three star review for Rolling Stone, Joe Gross said Push the Sky Away "is full of tiny sounds—plinking guitars, pulsing bass [and] lazy subtle drums."[30] Writing for Slant Magazine, Mark Collett stated: "subtle, sprawling, and often achingly beautiful, Push the Sky Away is a late-career masterpiece from an antipodean force of nature" and summarised that it was "an album of thrilling darkness pierced by moments of brilliant light."[33] USA Today' reviewer Edna Gundersen wrote that the release "may be more spare, somber and haunting than recent collections, but Cave's dark menace, devilish wit and yarn-spinning voodoo compensate for a lack of guitar bluster."[34]

Commercial performance edit

The album became their first Australian chart topper, debuting at #1 on the ARIA Charts in February, 2013. [35]

The album debuted at No. 29 on Billboard 200,[36] and No. 9 on Top Rock Albums for charts dated March 9, 2013,[37] selling 15,000 copies in the first week. The album has sold 57,000 copies in the United States as of July 2016.[38]

Track listing edit

All lyrics are written by Nick Cave; all music is composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis unless otherwise noted

No.TitleMusicLength
1."We No Who U R" 4:04
2."Wide Lovely Eyes" 3:40
3."Water's Edge"Cave, Ellis, Thomas Wydler3:49
4."Jubilee Street" 6:35
5."Mermaids" 3:49
6."We Real Cool" 4:18
7."Finishing Jubilee Street"Cave, Ellis, Wydler4:28
8."Higgs Boson Blues" 7:50
9."Push the Sky Away" 4:07
Total length:42:40
iTunes[39] bonus material
No.TitleLength
10."The Making of Push the Sky Away" (video track)6:40
Total length:49:20
Deluxe limited edition[40] bonus 7"
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Needle Boy" 4:04
2."Lightning Bolts"Cave, Ellis, Wydler3:42
Total length:7:46
Deluxe limited edition[41] bonus DVD
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Needle Boy" (video track) 4:04
2."Lightning Bolts" (video track)Cave, Ellis, Wydler3:42
Total length:7:46

Personnel edit

All personnel credits adapted from Push the Sky Away's liner notes.[42]

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Sales certifications for Push the Sky Away
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[79] Gold 35,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[80] Gold 10,000^
Portugal (AFP)[81] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[82] Gold 100,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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External links edit

  • Push the Sky Away at Discogs (list of releases)

January 01, 1970
push, away, fifteenth, studio, album, australian, band, nick, cave, seeds, released, february, 2013, band, label, seed, recorded, fabrique, southern, france, with, producer, nick, launay, band, first, album, feature, founding, member, mick, harvey, departed, f. Push the Sky Away is the fifteenth studio album by the Australian band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released on 18 February 2013 on the band s own label Bad Seed Ltd 3 Recorded at La Fabrique in southern France with producer Nick Launay it is the band s first album not to feature founding member Mick Harvey who departed from the band in January 2009 4 The release also marked the return of founding member Barry Adamson making his first album appearance since Your Funeral My Trial 1986 and was the last to feature keyboardist and pianist Conway Savage prior to his death in 2018 Push the Sky AwayStudio album by Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsReleased18 February 2013 2013 02 18 RecordedDecember 2011 2011 12 August 2012 2012 08 at La Fabrique in Saint Remy de Provence FranceGenreRock 1 blues 2 Length42 40LabelBad Seed LtdProducerNick Launay with Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsNick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronologyLive at the Royal Albert Hall 2008 Push the Sky Away 2013 Live from KCRW 2013 Singles from Push the Sky Away We No Who U R Released 3 December 2012 Jubilee Street Released 15 January 2013 Mermaids Released 20 May 2013 Contents 1 Recording 2 Composition 3 Packaging 4 Release 4 1 Tour 5 Reception 6 Commercial performance 7 Track listing 8 Personnel 9 Charts 9 1 Weekly charts 9 2 Year end charts 10 Certifications 11 References 12 External linksRecording editPush the Sky Away was recorded at La Fabrique a recording studio based in a 19th century mansion in Saint Remy de Provence France It was produced by Nick Launay who produced Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds three previous studio albums Nocturama 2003 Abattoir Blues The Lyre of Orpheus 2004 and Dig Lazarus Dig 2008 and Grinderman s two studio albums Segments of the album s recording sessions were featured in the official trailer for Push the Sky Away which was posted on YouTube upon the album s announcement 5 The band entered the studio when Nick Cave had unformed and pupal ideas and the band transformed them into things of wonder 6 Founding Bad Seeds member Barry Adamson returned to the fold during the album s recording sessions marking his first recording appearance since Your Funeral My Trial 1986 Reflecting on the experience Barry noted It was very weird Mick Harvey had left and there was Warren Ellis and Thomas Wydler and Jim Sclavunos and Martyn P Casey and none of them were Bad Seeds when I was a Bad Seed yet they d all been in the band for much longer than me I don t mean to sound derogatory but it was like it had normalised Nick Cave had found another way He was using convention and turning it on its head That s what got me I thought Ah he s still fucking doing it He s still fucking doing it 7 The process of the recording was documented in the documentary 20 000 Days on Earth released on September 17 2014 Composition editDescribing Push the Sky Away in the album s press release Nick Cave said if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children then Push The Sky Away is the ghost baby in the incubator and Warren s loops are its tiny trembling heart beat 8 The songs on the album were written over the course of twelve months and took form in a modest notebook kept by Cave The notebook contained notes on the album s songs which were composed from Googling curiosities being entranced by exotic English Wikipedia entries whether they re true or not 8 The song We Real Cool also mentions Wikipedia by name According to Cave the songs illustrate how the internet has influenced significant events momentary fads and mystically tinged absurdities and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what s genuinely important 8 Due to health problems longtime drummer Thomas Wydler was unable to tour with the band in support of the album Cave stated In some ways the new album is carried by Wydler and his participation It s very sad that he can t do the tour because of health reasons That is a hard blow for us He is the sound of this album 9 Packaging editThe cover image shows Cave opening a window shutter to illuminate his naked wife Susie Bick and was shot by Dominique Issermann in the couple s own bedroom 10 The photograph was taken while Issermann was at Cave and Bick s home during a photo shoot for a fashion magazine that Bick was modelling for Cave was assisting with the shoot and was asked by Issermann to open the shutters to let in more light Bick was in the middle of changing and decided to drop her robe as Cave was opening up the shutters and Issermann impulsively decided to capture the scene Cave and Bick were very pleased with how the photo came out and after consulting with his bandmates and his office elected to use it as the album cover 11 Release editPush the Sky Away was announced for release on 27 November 2012 Released on 18 February 2013 8 the album was made available on standard CD LP digital download limited edition deluxe CD DVD and a Super Deluxe box set 8 The album s lead single We No Who U R was released as a digital download on 3 December and its second single Jubilee Street was released on 15 January 2013 Push the Sky Away sold 15 000 copies in its first week of release in the United States 12 Tour edit Prior to the album s announcement Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds disclosed plans to perform at Humphrey s Concerts By the Sea in San Diego California 16 April 2013 13 The announcement sparked rumours that the band would also perform at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 13 14 which was later confirmed On 3 December 2012 the band announced an Australian and North American tour accompanying Push the Sky Away s release The six date Australian leg of the tour commenced on 26 February 2013 in Sydney and concluded on 8 March in Brisbane 15 and the twelve date North American leg commenced on 14 March in Dallas Texas and concluded on 3 April in Denver Colorado 16 Several dates at major European festivals were later announced including performances at Primavera Sound in Spain 17 NorthSide Festival in Denmark 18 Exit Festival in Serbia and Greenville Music Festival in Germany 19 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performed a one off debut of Push the Sky Away in its entirety at Fonda Theatre in Hollywood California on 21 February 2013 The performance was streamed live on YouTube and made available for stream for an additional 24 hours 20 Reception editProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingAnyDecentMusic 8 1 10 21 Metacritic81 100 22 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 23 The A V ClubB 24 Entertainment WeeklyA 25 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 26 The Independent nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 27 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 28 NME9 10 29 Pitchfork8 0 10 1 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 30 Spin8 10 2 Push the Sky Away was acclaimed by music critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics the album received an average score of 81 based on 46 reviews indicating universal acclaim 22 Allmusic rated Push the Sky Away three and a half out of five stars and reviewer Thom Jurek said the songs contain simple melodies and arrangements that offer the appearance of vulnerability and tenderness but it is inside this framework that they eventually reveal their sharp fangs and malcontent 23 Writing for The A V Club Jason Heller asserted that the album s oppressively hollow minimalism is both its biggest drawback and its greatest strength noted the lack of chemistry in Mick Harvey s absence and gave it a B grade 24 BBC Music writer James Skinner referred to the album as certainly a far stranger subtler record than that last Bad Seeds outing and an LP as weighty compelling and brilliant as The Bad Seeds have ever produced 31 Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune called Push the Sky Away an album without any shocking turns but said that tiny trembling heart beat as Cave calls it starts to sound louder with each listen in his three out of four star review 32 In his review for The Guardian Dave Simpson awarded the album four out of five stars described it as funeral paced songs and stripped down music that calls to mind Leonard Cohen fronting James Blake minimalism and drew comparisons between the album and The Boatman s Call 1997 26 Los Angeles Times reviewer Randall Roberts said Push the Sky Away is not a work to be appreciated casually Cave delves into a meandering meditative world that rarely offers the kind of hooks or tethers that dictate toe tapping singalongs in his three out of four star review 28 Writing for the NME Jenny Stevens described the album as a majestic and desolate masterpiece and noted that the band merges the experimentation and freedom of their side projects with Cave s most tender songcraft rating the album nine out of ten 29 Pitchfork rated Push the Sky Away eight out of ten and reviewer Stuart Berman praised its foggy reveries built upon ominously rumbling bass lines twitchy rhythmic tics and hushed voice intimations adding it may not erupt with same force as the Bad Seeds stormiest gestures but the underlying menace fuelling it remains 1 In his three star review for Rolling Stone Joe Gross said Push the Sky Away is full of tiny sounds plinking guitars pulsing bass and lazy subtle drums 30 Writing for Slant Magazine Mark Collett stated subtle sprawling and often achingly beautiful Push the Sky Away is a late career masterpiece from an antipodean force of nature and summarised that it was an album of thrilling darkness pierced by moments of brilliant light 33 USA Today reviewer Edna Gundersen wrote that the release may be more spare somber and haunting than recent collections but Cave s dark menace devilish wit and yarn spinning voodoo compensate for a lack of guitar bluster 34 Commercial performance editThe album became their first Australian chart topper debuting at 1 on the ARIA Charts in February 2013 35 The album debuted at No 29 on Billboard 200 36 and No 9 on Top Rock Albums for charts dated March 9 2013 37 selling 15 000 copies in the first week The album has sold 57 000 copies in the United States as of July 2016 38 Track listing editAll lyrics are written by Nick Cave all music is composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis unless otherwise notedNo TitleMusicLength1 We No Who U R 4 042 Wide Lovely Eyes 3 403 Water s Edge Cave Ellis Thomas Wydler3 494 Jubilee Street 6 355 Mermaids 3 496 We Real Cool 4 187 Finishing Jubilee Street Cave Ellis Wydler4 288 Higgs Boson Blues 7 509 Push the Sky Away 4 07Total length 42 40 iTunes 39 bonus materialNo TitleLength10 The Making of Push the Sky Away video track 6 40Total length 49 20 Deluxe limited edition 40 bonus 7 No TitleMusicLength1 Needle Boy 4 042 Lightning Bolts Cave Ellis Wydler3 42Total length 7 46 Deluxe limited edition 41 bonus DVDNo TitleMusicLength1 Needle Boy video track 4 042 Lightning Bolts video track Cave Ellis Wydler3 42Total length 7 46Personnel editAll personnel credits adapted from Push the Sky Away s liner notes 42 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nick Cave vocals piano electric piano additional mixing design Warren Ellis violin viola tenor guitar flute synthesizer electric piano loops backing vocals additional mixing Martyn P Casey bass backing vocals Conway Savage vocals backing vocals Thomas Wydler drums backing vocals Jim Sclavunos percussion backing vocals Additional musicians Barry Adamson bass 7 9 backing vocals George Vjestica twelve string guitar 4 5 backing vocals 5 8 Chris Dauray saxophone 8 Jessica Neilson bass clarinet 8 Ryan Porter trombone 8 Antonio Beliveau backing vocals 1 3 7 9 Aya Peard backing vocals 1 3 7 9 Jason Evigan backing vocals 1 3 7 9 Natalie Wilde backing vocals 1 3 7 9 Martha Skye Murphy backing vocals 1 3 7 Children of Ecole Saint Martin backing vocals 4 8 9 Technical personnel Nick Launay production recording mixing Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds production Kevin Paul additional recording Anna Laverty additional recording vocal engineer recording assistant Damien Arlot recording assistant Thomas Lefebvre recording assistant Adam Atom Greenspan mixing assistant Tim Young mastering Design personnel Tom Hingston design Dominique Issermann photography cover art Cat Stevens photographyCharts editWeekly charts edit Chart 2013 Peakposition Australian Albums ARIA 43 1 Austrian Albums O3 Austria 44 1 Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 45 1 Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 46 5 Canadian Albums Billboard 47 20 Danish Albums Hitlisten 48 1 Dutch Albums Album Top 100 49 1 Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 50 5 French Albums SNEP 51 7 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 52 2 Irish Albums IRMA 53 3 Irish Independent Albums Chart 54 1 Italian Albums FIMI 55 18 New Zealand Albums RMNZ 56 1 Norwegian Albums VG lista 57 2 Polish Albums OLiS 58 2 Portuguese Albums AFP 59 1 Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 60 4 Scottish Albums OCC 61 3 Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 62 3 Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 63 2 UK Albums OCC 64 3 UK Indie OCC 65 1 US Billboard 200 66 29 US Top Alternative 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