Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Announce B-Sides & Rarities Part II

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.