Career spanning collection from Australia's Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Lovely Creatures compiles the best of the prolific band's three decades worth of material. Frontman Nick Cave had this to say about the compilation: There are some people out there who just don’t know where to start with The Bad Seeds. Others know the catalogue better than I do! This release is designed to be a way into three decades of music making. That's a lot of songs. The songs we have chosen are the ones that have stuck around, for whatever reason. Some songs are those that demand to be played live. Others are lesser songs that are personal favourites of ours. Others are just too big and have too much history to leave out. And there are those that didn't make it, poor things. They are the ones you must discover by yourselves. Includes the songs: "Into My Arms," "Red Right Hand," "O Children," and "Where The Wild Rose Grow." Twenty-one tracks in all. Released by Mute on triple 180 gram vinyl housed in an embossed tri-fold sleeve.

• 180 gram triple vinyl pressing
• embossed tri-fold sleeve
• music label: Mute 2017

reviewed by ninetwofour 05/2017