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Nick Cave says The Bad Seeds are back in the studio “messing around” on a possible new record
Nick Cave says The Bad Seeds are in Islington studio sessions, working with the vague idea of making a new record.
Nick Cave has quietly let slip that The Bad Seeds are back in the studio, working, in his words, with the “vague idea of perhaps making a new record.” After releasing their 18th studio album, Wild God, in 2024, the band already seem to be turning their attention to what comes next.
The update arrived this week on Cave’s Red Hand Files blog, where he was responding to a fan’s question about how he sleeps. Cave said he tends to split the night into two separate three-hour sleeps, and after getting up and putting on a suit, he heads to work. “This morning, I am going to Islington to mess around in the studio,” he wrote, naming Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis as the Bad Seeds joining him there.
That session, he said, is taking place around “the vague idea of perhaps making a new record.” Nothing more exact than that, but for Bad Seeds fans, it is enough to start the wheels turning.
The band are also due to return to the stage in a big way over the coming months. On July 31, they play a major homecoming show at Brighton’s Preston Park as part of their UK and European tour, with support from The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher. They also have a large date lined up at Dublin’s Malahide Castle in June. Find any remaining tickets here.
Beyond those shows, the group are booked for a run of summer festivals, including Mad Cool, NOS Alive, Best Kept Secret, Montreux Jazz Festival, Open’er and Øya. Earlier this year, they were also on the road in Australia and New Zealand.
Cave himself has been keeping busy outside the Bad Seeds, too. He recently appeared on Flea’s debut solo album Honora alongside Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and he also recorded a new version of “Red Right Hand” for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
There is also a career-spanning anthology on the way for the late Bad Seed Conway Savage, set for release on July 17.
NME gave Wild God four stars in 2024, writing: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered. But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, ‘Jumping for love and the opening sky above’ as ‘Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years’. With a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.”
