The Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced the second installment of B-Sides and Rarities. It is 16 years after the inaugural edition, Out October 22 on vinyl, CD, and digitally. B-Sides and Rarities Part II includes 27 tracks from between 2005 and 2020. Speaking of the new the inaugural edition album, Nick Cave said;
I always liked the original B-Sides & Rarities more than any of our other albums. It’s the only one I’d listen to willingly. It seems more relaxed, even a bit nonsensical in places, but with some beautiful songs throughout. There is something, too, about the smallness of certain songs that is closer to their original spirit.
B-Sides & Rarities Part II continues this strange and beautiful collection of lost songs from The Bad Seeds. I love the final side of the last disc because it reveals the small and fragile beginnings of some of my favourite Bad Seeds songs. ‘Waiting For You’ complete with bizarre ‘canning factory’ rhythm track, a gorgeous ‘Life Per Se’ deemed too sad for Skeleton Tree, and ‘Earthlings’ that some consider the finest track of the Ghosteen sessions.
Also, the band released the song called Vortex with the announcement. You can listen to it and check the B-Sides & Rarities Part IItracklist below.
01 Hey Little Firing Squad 02 Fleeting Love 03 Accidents Will Happen 04 Free To Walk [With Debbie Harry] 05 Avalanche 06 Vortex 07 Needle Boy 08 Lightning Bolts 09 Animal X 10 Give Us a Kiss 11 Push The Sky Away (Live With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) 12 First Skeleton Tree 13 King Sized Nick Cave Blues 14 Opium Eyes 15 Big Dream (With Sky) 16 Instrumental #33 17 Hell Villanelle 18 Euthanasia 19 Life Per Se 20 Steve McQueen 21 First Bright Horses 22 First Girl in Amber 23 Glacier 24 Heart that Kills You 25 First Waiting for You 26 Sudden Song 27 Earthlings
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