Brazilian blogger The Blog That Celebrates Itself invited a bunch of indie bands to tackle the songs of Nick Cave for a tribute album. These kind of projects tend be a grab bag of mediocre, really bad, and surprisingly great renditions. Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave is no exception to that rule. It's quite hard to capture the impending doom meets love and kindness vibe of arguably the finest living songwriter.
Most of the covers of this album take the safe route by sticking close to the original. Three tracks stand out: Blackout Transmission changed the tempo of City of Refuge, in itself a cover of traditional that was first recorded in 1928. Box and the Twins added the Dresden Dolls to No More Shall We Part and Waves of Dread came up with a noisy garage version of The Mercy Seat. The rest of the bands struggle to keep with those at best.
Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave is released on The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records (pay-what-you-want).
Tracks:- Waves of Dread - The Mercy Seat
- Box and the Twins - No More Shall We Part
- The Visceral Pleasure - Push The Sky Away
- Curl - Stranger Than Kindness
- Kill The Moose - Into My Arms
- The Angelus - The Weeping Song
- Bone Acre - Love Bomb (Grinderman)
- Blackout Transmission - City of Refuge
- New Apostles - Loverman
- Midnight Bell - Straight To You
- BÜNNI - Far From Me
- Neu Matter - Jubilee Street
- Deceased Squirrel on the Phone (Feat. Bob Vratnicek) - Catman (The Birthday Party)
- Bryant Eugene Vazquez - Long Time Man
- Robert Frank - Foi Na Cruz
