Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds To Release New Album Next Week

Nick Cave has made good on a promise to release a new Bad Seeds album, confirming the band will release their 17th studio album, Ghosteen, next week. 

The Aussie legend announced the news on his Red Hand Files newsletter today, confirming it will be a double album and even revealing the LP artwork. 

"The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents," Cave's post reads.

"Ghosteen is a migrating spirit."

The reveal comes only months after Cave confirmed during his Conversations tour of Australia that a new Bad Seeds record was on the way. 

"We've really nearly finished a new record, I would say, and it's an amazing thing in my opinion," Cave said during his show at Melbourne Town Hall in January.

Ghosteen will be Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' first studio album since 2016's Skeleton Tree; check out the tracklist and artwork below.

Part one:

The Spinning Song
Bright Horses
Waiting For You
Night Raid
Sun Forest
Galleon Ship
Ghosteen Speaks
Leviathan

Part two ("consists of two long songs, linked by a spoken word piece"):

Ghosteen
Fireflies
Hollywood