It is called Grinderman and it is fucking awesome. With those words, Nick Cave announced his new album/band in between songs during a 'solo' concert in Antwerp in September 2006. The ' ' because he performed with Warren Ellis, Martin P. Casey and Jim Sclavunos. Together they turn out to be… Grinderman.

I have not yet listened to the album enough to concur or differ with Mr. Cave but can say that I like what I heard both times I played it. (*)

I particularly like these words…

We done our thing
We have evolved
We're up on our hind legs
The problems solved

We are artists
We are mathematicians
Some of us hold extremely
high positions

But we are tired
We are hardly breathing
And we are free
Go tell the women that we're leaving

We're sick and tired
Of all this self serving grieving
All we wanted was a little consensual rape in the morning
And maybe a bit more in the evening
We are scientists
We do genetics
We leave religion
To the psychos and fanatics
But we are tired
We got nothing to believe in
We are lost
Go tell the women we're leaving

We don't know a thing
We're hip to the sound
of six billion people going down
We are magicians
We are deceiving
We're free and we're lost
Go tell the women that we're leaving

Come.. on back now to the fray


(*) I can say that the concert was fucking awesome.