Significant longplayers from yesteryear

13 September 2025

Band: GRINDERMAN
Who: Nick Cave taking a walk on the wild side with his side project
featuring Bad Seeds members Martyn Casey on bass, Warren Ellis
on violin and guitar, and Jim Sclavunos on drums.

They released their 2nd album GRINDERMAN 2
on 13 September 2010, today 15 years ago

Pitchfork wrote: “Nick Cave’s schizophrenic and sloppy mid-life crisis project,
Grinderman, returns with another album of feral urges and ferocious guitar work.
Well, it’s schizophrenic and sloppy. Those feral urges are still there; consider the
album cover’s lupine avatar.

But Cave and the band– who typically improvise structure and lyrics, have kept the themes consistent across nine songs. And they’re not terribly different from what interests him on albums with the Bad Seeds: God, Death, and America are gospel.”

SINGLE

Cave: “The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school,
but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless.
We’re not so precious about it.”

ALBUM

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