Nick Cave and I go back a long way. Back to the night I saw The Birthday Party on some TV show in 1982 or something, and although I've not been the avid fan that I might have been since around the late 90s, I still value the guy above most others, and still reckon him one of the best songwriters that is working in the world today. Another string to Cave's bow is composing film music, and since Ghosts... of the Civil Dead he's done a lot of film work. This double CD collects a lot of his work with The Dirty Three's Warren Ellis, a demonic violinist and general shaggy Bad Seed. As you'd expect, this is lovely stuff, by turns lush and elegiac, melancholy and haunting, sweet and bitter-sweet. The two discs each have a general theme; the first larger orchestral pieces, the second more intimate and experimental work; but it's not much of a division. The music on the first disc comes from better-known movies The Proposition, The Road and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, while the 2nd features work from films I'd not heard of before: The Girls Of Phnom Penh, The English Surgeon, and The Vaults. It's all wonderful, but the only complaint I have is that as you can see, the music only comes from six different movies. It's one of those compilations that doesn't really have much of a point. It could have been one disc and served the same purpose. It's great stuff though, can't fault the music, just question the reasoning.
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