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An intense slab of religiosity: Nick Cave’s Seven Psalms reviewed

The limited edition EP will cool on your coffee table but will anyone play it more than once?

issue 16 July 2022

 Grade: B

There has always been a seriousness and intelligence about Nick Cave quite at odds with that which usually attends to the rancid, tottering, old tart that is rock music, so there should be no surprise that he’s left it completely behind.

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