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Nick Cave says The Bad Seeds are in the studio with a vague idea for a new record
Nick Cave says The Bad Seeds are in the studio again, working on new material with a vague idea for another record.
Nick Cave has said The Bad Seeds are back in the studio, “messing around” with the “vague idea of perhaps making a new record.”
The update comes after the group released their latest studio album, Wild God, in 2024. It was the band’s 18th album overall, but Cave’s latest note suggests attention is already turning toward the next one.
He made the comment on his Red Hand Files blog this week while replying to a fan’s question about his sleeping habits. Cave wrote that his nights usually consist of two separate three-hour sleeps. After getting up and putting on a suit, he said, he goes to work.
“This morning, I am going to Islington to mess around in the studio,” he wrote, naming fellow Bad Seeds Martyn P. Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis. He added that the sessions are taking place with “the vague idea of perhaps making a new record.”
The band are also set for a major homecoming show at Brighton’s Preston Park on July 31, part of their UK and European tour. The support bill includes The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher. Another large date is booked for Dublin’s Malahide Castle in June. Find any remaining tickets here.
The Bad Seeds are also due to play a run of summer festivals, including Mad Cool, NOS Alive, Best Kept Secret, Montreux Jazz Festival, Open’er and Øya. Earlier this year, the group toured Australia and New Zealand.
Elsewhere, Cave features on Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea’s debut solo album, Honora, alongside Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. He also recorded a new version of “Red Right Hand” for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
A career-spanning anthology for the late Bad Seed Conway Savage has also been announced and is due out 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.”
