Nick Cave has revealed The Bad Seeds are “messing around” in the studio with the “vague idea of making a new record”.
The band released their most recent studio album ‘Wild God’ – their 18th in total – in 2024, but after two years, it looks like their minds are now shifting to their next LP.
Writing on his Red Hand Files blog this week, Cave let slip about the group’s current activity while answering a fan’s question about his sleeping habits.
After explaining that his nights tend to be made up of two separate three-hour sleeps, he said after waking up and putting on a suit, he heads to work, adding, “this morning, I am going to Islington to mess around in the studio” with his fellow Bad Seeds Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis.
He said that their time in the studio together is based on “the vague idea of perhaps making a new record”.
The Bad Seeds are playing a huge homecoming show at Brighton’s Preston Park on July 31 as part of their UK and European tour, with a huge support bill set to include The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher. There is another big show at Dublin’s Malahide Castle in June. Find any remaining tickets here.
The group will appear at numerous summer festivals, too, such as Mad Cool, NOS Alive, Best Kept Secret, Montreux Jazz Festival, Open’er and Øya. Earlier this year, they headed out on the road in Australia and New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Cave appeared on Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea’s recent debut solo album, ‘Honora’, alongside Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. He also recorded a new version of ‘Red Right Hand’ for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
A career-spanning anthology for the late Bad Seed Conway Savage has also been announced, to be released on July 17.
NME awarded ‘Wild God’ four stars in 2024, noting: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered. But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, “Jumping for love and the opening sky above” as “Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years“. With a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.”
