![]() As a musician and as a person, where does one go from there?įor Cave and Ellis, the solution was to jettison even more cargo. It was, along with everything else, a pinnacle of his artistry, 40 years in. ![]() Over crystalline loops of electronics and piano, he reckoned in piercing detail with the death of his teenage son Arthur in 2015, and his own search for redemption in the aftermath. Cave’s formerly narrative songwriting became impressionistic and autobiographical, sometimes seeming to embody the mysteries of life itself. By 2019’s Ghosteen, there were no drums and few recognizable rock instruments. Carnage comes after a remarkable trilogy of Bad Seeds releases, in which Cave and his band-among the fiercest animals in rock’n’roll, when they want to be-approached total stillness.
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