1 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

THE MERCY SEAT

A Cave classic to start; his frenzied 1988 meditation on awaiting execution. Nick Launay, producer of both Cave and Idles, sees strong similarities: “There’s absolutely no fucking around at all,” he tells us this month. “It’s almost like they’re taking what most people would take an hour to do and doing it in three minutes. But those three minutes are as intense as fuck.”

Written by Cave/Harvey. Published by Nick Cave Productions, Mute Song Ltd.