Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds announced a 33 date European and UK Tour for 2020

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have also announced a 33 date European and UK Tour for 2020, starting in Lisbon on April 23rd, the tour will visit 19 countries, including 7 dates in the UK.

Ghosteen, the new two part album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, is out now on double vinyl, double CD and across all digital platforms.

Order now here.

Ghosteen premiered globally in full on YouTube on October 3rd 2019, accompanied by a video revealing words and lyrics in a beautiful, ethereal cloudscape that shifted in color and made subtle references to each song, watch here.

Track Listing

Part One

1 Spinning Song             4:44

2 Bright Horses              4:53

3 Waiting for You           3:55

4 Night Raid                    5:08

5:085 Sun Forest            6:486

Galleon Ship                4:157

Ghosteen Speaks        4:038

Leviathan                     4:48

Part Two

1 Ghosteen             12:112

Fireflies                 3:233

Hollywood         14:13

‘The songs on the first album are the children.The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is a migrating spirit.’

Nick Cave

The album was recorded in 2018 and early 2019 at Woodshed in Malibu, Nightbird in Los Angeles, Retreat in Brighton and Candybomber in Berlin. It was mixed by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Lance Powell and Andrew Dominik at Conway in Los Angeles. Cover painting by Tom duBois.

Nick Cave – vocals, piano, synthesizer, backing vocal Warren Ellis – synthesizer, loops, flute, violin, piano, backing vocals Thomas Wydler – drums Martyn Casey – bass Jim Sclavunos – vibraphone, percussion George Vjestica – guitar

Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, following 2016’s Skeleton Tree, and is released via Ghosteen Ltd.“(4.5 stars) One of the most moving albums of his career… Ghosteen is a masterpiece of melancholy”—ROLLING STONE

“Some music sets out to conjure eternities. Extended drones, chantlike repeating phrases, tolling chords, spacious reverberation: Those are meditative sounds, defying fracture or interruption, tuning out the momentary and the trivial, invoking concentration, absorption, ritual and rapture. It’s the kind of music Nick Cave has chosen for Ghosteen, his 17th studio album leading the Bad Seeds.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Best New Music (8.8) One of his most powerful albums yet, an endlessly giving and complex meditation on mortality and our collective grief… you don’t need to be an expert in Cave’s wider cosmology to be swept inside of Ghosteen, to be devastated by its despair and lifted higher by its humanity. You only need the ability to suffer and the desire to survive.” —PITCHFORK

“This is the sound not of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds pushing against the heavens or crash-landing in the attempt, but floating in the stratosphere themselves… Ghosteen is another major achievement in one of the most remarkable late-career stretches anyone’s ever had… the best version of him as an artist. As a writer, he is concluding this decade at the height of his powers.” —STEREOGUM

“What Cave sends us from this new place is remarkable. Ghosteen is both his most solitary recording since 2001’s No More Shall We Part and impossible to imagine without the contributions of The Bad Seeds. Long one of rock’s most versatile and visceral bands, here they’re tasked with wrapping swirls of atmospheric sound—braids of synth, vibraphones that echo from a mile away—around Cave’s elegant piano playing. He sounds simultaneously alone at the edge of the world and surrounded by benevolent spirits, a fittingly biblical cloud of witnesses who haven’t seen the power of God so much as they’ve moved through the fallout of their own atomic blasts; theirs is a communion of radiation.” —AV CLUB

“A dream world filled with prancing fire horses, stairways to heaven, and ghastly specters traveling down rain-glossed streets. Each line evokes poetic scenes with a vibrancy to rival the best of literature”—CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

“Cave’s radical openness has brought him into conversation and solidarity with this global community of people who have lost and who continue to live. For such people, Ghosteen is a sweeping and remarkable gift.” —PASTE

“Nick Cave’s ‘Ghosteen’ finds beauty and hope after darkness… when Nick sings, ‘Just want to stay in the business of making you happy,’ it’s one of the most purely beautiful lines in a love song released this year.” —BROOKLYN VEGAN

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS 2020 TOUR DATES

04/19/20 – Lisbon, Portugal – Altice Arena 04/22/20 – Toulouse, France – Zénith Toulouse Métropole 04/25/20 – Madrid, Spain – WiZink Center 04/26/20 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi 04/29/20 – Amsterdam, Holland – Ziggo Dome 04/30/20 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis 05/02/20 – Birmingham, UK – Arena Birmingham05/03/20 – Cardiff, UK – Motorpoint Arena 05/05/20 – Glasgow, UK – The SSE Hydro 05/06/20 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena 05/08/20 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena 05/12/20 – Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena 05/14/20 – London, UK – The O2 05/15/20 – London, UK – The O2 05/17/20 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena 05/18/20 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclaycard Arena 05/20/20 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena 05/21/20 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena05/23/20 – Stockholm, Sweden – Ericsson Globe 05/25/20 – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum 05/27/20 – Berlin, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena 05/28/20 – Gliwice, Poland – Arena Gliwice 05/30/20 –  Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Arena 06/01/20 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle 06/02/20 – Budapest, Hungary – László Papp Budapest Sportaréna 06/04/20 – Belgrade, Serbia – Stark Arena06/06/20 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle06/08/20 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion 06/09/20 – Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Forum 06/11/20 – Rome, Italy – Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica 06/14/20 – Paris, France – AccorHotels Arena 06/17/20 – Tel Aviv, Israel – Bloomfield Stadium

*Conversations with Nick Cave