Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds often play strange, but when they transform into Grinderman, the alter-ego of a band that hardly needs an alter-ego at all, they play raw and dirty, too. The scuzzy lounge rock of Grinderman is a decadent mess that only Nick Cave could orchestrate, a penthouse orgy of electric blues and feral poetry, and 2′s subtle psychedelic nibbles erase any misgivings about the band’s ability to love you after they fuck you. To that end, 2 is slower and sexier than the band’s 2007 self-titled debut at times, slinking its way through songs like “When My Baby Comes” “What I Know,” and “Palaces of Montezuma,” but still has the rock n’ roll machismo to lash out with unadulterated passion on songs like “Worm Tamer,” “Heathen Child,” and “Evil”. Grinderman is just further proof that Nick Cave really gets it, a beast white hot and brutally cool all at once.
Check out the video for “Heathen Child” from Grinderman 2!
Another Biters EP? Oh, that’s right, Jack. I guess releasing one outta-this-world album in 2010 wasn’t enough for these power pop superheroes because they’ve gone ahead and dropped yet another five-song masterpiece on us like a sack full o’ diamonds. Seriously, if they keep this up my heart’s gonna explode in a shower of cocktail napkin confetti. But really, can you think of a better way to go? Sure, you’re saying, when I’m balls deep in a teenage scream queen. Well, I got news for ya, friend. This is better than that. I’ll take your juicy thighs and smeared lipstick and raise you an orgy of rock n’ roll, cotton candy, jungle cats, wet tongues, and champagne bubbles. It’s just all sorts of crazy good stuff, ya know? When I had a go at their self-titled EP, I said that if the Biters weren’t the biggest band in the world real soon that we’d all be doomed, and I believe that now more than ever. So do the Biters apparently, who are doing their part by releasing the most amazing music at a roller-skate pace. It may be OK to like Biters, but it’s better to fucking love Biters. In fact, it’s pretty much mandatory.
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