It's as upbeat as the previous song isn't. The whole album and this song especially makes you feel anxious and nervous.Īvalanche is followed by "Cabin Fever!". Through all of his grunts and moans, Cave sounds so desperate, he sings almost as if he's pleading or begging. In the original, Cohen sings with a sort of detached, apathetic voice, but here Nick does much more credit to Cohen's lyrics. Instrumentally, the song is best described as sparse, with just some occasional piano, drums and bass and some organ hidden in the background, along with some creepy sounds from Blixa's guitar. The albums opens with a cover, Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche". At the same time though, this record really signals the blues-ward direction that the Cave and Harvey were moving to toward the end of The Birthday Party and would more fully be explored on the next two albums. From Her To Eternity sounds so much different than any other Bad Seeds album, you can hear all of the menace and chaos that only The Birthday Party are capable of. The Bad Seeds' debut album was recorded soon after the breakup of Cave's previous group, The Birthday Party and you can definitely hear the influence of that band in this album.
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