Editing Nick Cave (section)

=== Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984–present) ===
[[File:Nick Cave 1986.jpg|thumb|upright|Cave performing in Belgium, 1986]]
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The band with Cave as their lead vocalist has released eighteen studio albums. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' calls the group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography.<ref>Stuart Berman, [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]], [https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12949-from-her-to-eternity-the-first-born-is-dead-kicking-against-the-pricks-your-funeral-my-trial/ "Album reviews: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity / The First Born is Dead / Kicking Against the Pricks / Your Funeral&nbsp;... My Trial"], 6 May 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2009.</ref> Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequent histrionics. Critics [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] and Steve Huey wrote: "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk."<ref name="erlewine" />
[[File:Nick Cave- Hamburg 2001.jpg|thumb|Hamburg, Germany July 2001]]
Reviewing the band's fourteenth studio album ''[[Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!]]'' (2008), ''[[NME]]'' used the phrase "[[Gothic rock|gothic]] psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds/9484 |title= Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (album review) |work=[[NME]] |date=21 February 2008 |access-date=2 January 2012}}</ref> Their most recent work, ''[[Wild God]]'', was released in August 2024.

In a September 2013 interview, Cave explained that he returned to using a [[typewriter]] for songwriting after his experience with their twelfth studio album ''[[Nocturama (album)|Nocturama]]'' (2003), as he "could walk in on a bad day and hit 'delete' and that was the end of it". Cave believes that he lost valuable work due to a "bad day".<ref name="Big" />