I was (I am) pleasantly surprised by this, i have to say i was never a huge fan of Nick Cave even though i liked some of his old albums (like "The Firstborn Is Dead) and recent "Abattoir Blues" but a new "side project" rumors didn't make me jump off my shoes....
I'm jumping now, moderately, for this eleven rough diamonds that sounds like The Bad Seeds minus the rage (except maybe, "No Pussy Blues"!!) and on the plus side, a mature talent that, through the years, has reached a level of confidence that shows spectacularly on songs like "Electric Alice", "Grinderman" (title taken from a verse off a Memphis Slim's old blues song) and the contagious "(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free" that sounds like "There She Goes My Beautiful World" part 2.
Introspection is left to "Man In The Moon" with its mellow keyboards chords and Cave singing - "my daddy was an astronaut...my daddy went away too soon, now is living on the moon" - its short 2 minutes are quite breathtaking.
A lot of artists side project usually fall to pieces for their excessive ego to release everything they write which usually does not end up to be "golden" as they thought (or dreamt).
You might not have pure gold here, but really valuable silver will do, especially as shiny as this.
7/10
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