Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (CD)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (CD)CD, Reissue BMG (2025) US First released on 3rd June 1985, The Firstborn Is Dead was recorded in Berlin. Co produced by Flood and the band, it was rich with references to the blues and bluesmen, the American South, and especially to Elvis Presley. Sounds described the album as the most evocative blues record for years.

the album Tyler told Billboard was “the music I’ve always wanted to make” is available on new translucent blue coloured vinyl and with a limited alternative 'clown mask' album cover

while also allowing the remixers' own unique characters to take flight within JARV IS

• Limited edition of 4000 numbered copies on pink vinyl

inspiring countless bands that followed

resulting in a deeply collaborative and expansive new sound

But throughout Patience

life-affirming pop from the pen of Kieran Shudall

It’s a raw

Written as a sequel to 2018’s LONER

the other four tracks here were recorded during a later session but then set aside

The band are never out of the media spotlight

tom-heavy percussion provide the bedrock groove for Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo's ferocious barrages of noise-guitar crunch