Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

I was astonished by how good this was. The conventional wisdom about the Bad Seeds seems to be that they became purveyors of ballads while Nick Cave expressed his darker side through his other band Grinderman. Not true, at least on the evidence of this. The title track is especially good, but the whole album is excellent. I suspect that Cave's lyrics veer towards self parody, but not without surprises. For example, it is obvious, in "Albert Goes West", that bad things are going to happen to Albert and the other characters who head for different points of the compass. But the twist is in the last verse - the narrator isn't going anywhere because "I like it here", and sees the sun coming up.