The ‘prophet’ Nick Cave returns to Lisbon with the Bad Seeds: are we really prepared for salvation?

HYou can imagine Nick Cave happy. The five stages of grief are now, for the Australian, just one of many chapters in a fulfilled life; the rock that for years pushed up the mountain, after the tragic death of his son Arthur, in 2015, was forever stored in records filled with extreme pain. “Skeleton Tree”, in 2016, and “Ghosteen”, from 2019, the two previous works by the Bad Seeds, were the way he dealt with loss, a hurt verse over a quasi-suicidal instrumental, in which the greatest example is this song- colossus called ‘Girl In Amber’, born from a mysterious dream and later adapted to mean his wife and Arthur’s mother, Susie Cave.