Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

Push the Sky Away is the first album on the band's own label, Bad Seed Ltd.

Push the Sky Away moves with a quiet confidence, letting space and restraint do the heavy lifting instead of force or spectacle.

Released in 2013, the album marked a turning point for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, stepping away from the raw intensity of earlier records into something more reflective and controlled. The songs feel skeletal by design, built around atmosphere, repetition, and subtle tension rather than dramatic peaks. Everything is pared back, but nothing feels empty.

Guitars shimmer and hover rather than drive, rhythms stay minimal and deliberate, and textures drift in and out like half-remembered thoughts. Cave’s vocals are calm and conversational, often circling ideas of memory, desire, and modern disconnection with a measured, almost hypnotic patience.

Push the Sky Away is an album that trusts stillness. It rewards close listening and time, revealing its weight slowly through mood and repetition rather than immediacy. A record that feels suspended rather than grounded, and one that opened a new, quieter chapter for the Bad Seeds without losing their emotional gravity.