★★★★★
Radio on - the dons of magisterial cool get up-close and personal... With a blunt honesty and disregard for the conventions of PR that's perhaps typically Australian, Warren Ellis has admitted that what appealed to the Bad Seeds when the idea of playing a live set for LA radio station KCRW was first mooted was precisely nothing. "Actually," he told Uncut, "we were all determined to not do it because the tour up to that point had been intense...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-01-27
★★★★★
The trouble with studio albums is they don't always capture the essence of a band in the flesh. In the case of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds it's a point that's amplified by their blistering outings in support of album number 15, Push the Sky Away. For a band whose integral parts have each passed a half century in years, there are few more beseeching, emotionally raw and darn right beautiful acts currently plying their trade. It feels apt, then, that Cave and co...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-12-24
★★★★★
In April 2013, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds were booked to play the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and with the same lineup of acts appearing two consecutive weekends, Cave and his bandmates had a few days to kill in California. During their downtime in the Golden State, Cave and the Bad Seeds cut a live-in-the-studio session for Santa Monica's public radio station KCRW-FM, and the recordings have been released under the straightforward (if less than imaginative) title Live from KCRW...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-01-11
★★★★★
The Los Angeles-based KCRW sessions are legendary to some; its Morning Becomes Eclectic broadcasts werea must-hear throughout the 90s. Now Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release a live album recorded for the radio station in an intimate venue.It must have been something for the lucky few present, but this document doesn't quite do the job...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-12-06
★★★★★
Earlier this year while waiting to interview Beady Eye in a north London rehearsal studio, your humble scribe unexpectedly spent some time in the company of The Bad Seeds' metronomic man mountain that is Jim Sclavunos. Suited and booted at 10am and charming almost to a fault, the drummer explained that, despite having already been touring their fifteenth studio album, Push The Sky Away, the band were now hunkering down to rehearse for festival performances which would involve tweaking a number...
- thequietus.com
2013-12-04
★★★★★
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Live From KCRWBy Vish KhannaFew who've seen them would argue that the Bad Seeds aren't the most explosive, charismatic live band going, but here they strip down to play mellower fare. That's not to say it's not intense or pensive in its own right; Cave is a master of phrasing and knows how to enhance the suspense and drama in his carefully written lyrics...
- exclaim.ca
2013-12-04
★★★★★
Though more stately than one might expect - lacking in the usual bluster of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' oeuvre - Live From KCRW is an assured yet restrained testament to the band as a creative live force.
Live From KCRW kicks off with "Higgs Boson Blues", the neurotic post-millennial climax to Push The Sky Away...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-12-03
★★★★★
The compact audience at Los Angeles' Apogee Studios can be heard shouting adoring song requests - "Nick The Stripper!" - on this document of an April 2013 radio session. "Eventually you'll say one of the songs on this very short list here," Cave laughs, before plunging into Stranger Than Kindness. Fans could shout themselves hoarse before exhausting the options, though, and these ten songs (Into My Arms and God Is In The House are vinyl additions) show off the Bad Seeds' ever-deepening...
- www.mojo4music.com
2013-12-03
★★★★★
Though more stately than one might expect - lacking in the usual bluster of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' oeuvre - Live From KCRW is an assured yet restrained testament to the band as a creative live force.
Live From KCRW kicks off with "Higgs Boson Blues", the neurotic post-millennial climax to Push The Sky Away...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-01-05
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