Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities (Part II)

A double vinyl set featuring a monster collection of of songs from the dark lord himself.

B-Sides & Rarities Part II feels like stepping into the margins, where experiments linger and songs are allowed to exist without explanation.

Released in 2021, this second volume gathers material from across Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ later years, pulling together B-sides, alternate versions, soundtrack pieces, and stray recordings that never quite fit into the main albums. Rather than filling gaps, the collection expands the emotional landscape, showing how much of the band’s identity lives off to the side of the official canon.

Some tracks feel skeletal and unfinished, others lush and fully formed, but all of them carry the same sense of intent and atmosphere found in the studio albums. Familiar themes surface in altered shapes, sometimes softer, sometimes stranger, revealing how ideas evolve when they are not bound to a central narrative.

Part II works best when taken slowly. It is not about highlights or cohesion, but about context. A reminder that for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, the edges often hold as much meaning as the center, and that the songs left behind can be just as revealing as the ones that made it through.