STACK #193 Nov 2020

MUSIC FEATURE

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album soundtrack release). This sublime 22-track collection

comprises songs spanning from 1986 right through to now, thanks to Cave's sorrow- stricken new offering, Euthanasia (“I look for you underneath the damp earth/ I look for you in the night sky"). Cave chuckles after hitting a clanger at the very end of (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? – an endearing, human moment, before we're struck down by raw emotion as his upper register strains during Waiting For You 's choruses. Cave played a Fazioli piano for the first time during this solo show, extolling via The Red Hand Files website, "It whispered to me. It roared at me. It was the most beautiful instrument I had ever played," and he performs The Mercy Seat 's

startling fortissimo stabs with relish. Evocative lyricism pulls focus within these arrangements (particularly during murderous whorehouse stomper Papa Won't Leave You, Henry ) and Palaces Of Montezuma ("The spinal cord of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroe’s negligee”) makes us ache for 'Grinderman 3', which Cave has never actually ruled out. Bryget Chr isfi eld

his songs. It was initially envisioned as a one-off streaming event, but an extended cut of Idiot Prayer.. . – containing four additional songs – screens in cinemas globally this month (followed by this double- CAVE AWES ALONE D escribed by Cave as "... a prayer into the void... a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history", Idiot Prayer... evolved from the Conversations With Nick Cave events during which he performed reimagined, stripped-back piano versions of

Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace is out Nov 20 via Inertia.

I t must’ve been strange for Kylie to return to dance music during lockdown, not least because she had to record and co-engineer the songs herself. So how is it, the closest thing we’ll likely ever get to a DIY Kylie record? Hot as. If there’s one criticism to make, it’s that starting with its straightest shooter – sparkling KYLIE'S SELF- RECORDED DISCO : A FEAST OF DIVINE DISHES

single Magic – belies how varied the album gets. More than an account of guaranteed disco, funk and house moves, Disco jumps through styles like it’s backstage of the catwalk: piano stabs on Real Groove , the choral New Wave of Say Something , sci-fi Daft Punk-y posturing on Supernova , the chattering beach party atmosphere of Monday Blues . A perfect sample platter for the restless. Jake Cleland

DISCO by Kylie Minogue is out now via Liberation Records.

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