NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS announce new album Ghosteen, due out next week

24 September 2019

A new album from NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS is coming soon, really soon. Entitled Ghosteen, it’s due out next week.

NICK CAVE announced the release on his website The Red Hand Files, where he answers fan-submitted questions. In response to a fan who asked about a timetable for the band’s next album, CAVE responded, “You can expect a new album next week.”

He went on to reveal that Ghosteen is a double album consisting of 10 songs. Part one comprises eight songs about “children”. The second part is about “their parents” and consists of “two long songs linked by a spoken word piece.” “Ghosteen is a migrating spirit,” CAVE added.

In 2015, CAVE’s 15-year-old son, Arthur, died after falling from a cliff in Brighton, UK. The band’s ensuing album, 2016’s Skeleton Tree, was heavily inspired by Arthur’s death, and it appears the same can be said about Ghosteen.

Cave’s wife, Susie Bick, previously said her husband’s new album were “his Fever Songs.” She explained that the songs stemmed from “an autumn flu” which produced “lucid fever dreams.”