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Today's Shelf Pull: Nick Cave, Bad Weather With Good Shoes

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are on the shelf today with Henry's Dream: a 1992 LP where romance, dust, trouble and storytelling all arrive looking far too pleased with themselves.

Some records arrive with a small umbrella and reasonable expectations.

Henry's Dream arrives as if it has seen the weather report and decided the weather should be more worried.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are on the shelf today, and the sleeve is already doing useful work before the record has moved an inch. There is Cave on a billboard, the sky behind him looking as if it has been having thoughts it should maybe keep to itself, and the title sitting there with the blunt confidence of a warning sign. It is not subtle. Good. Subtle has enough employment elsewhere.

The catalogue facts are tidy: Henry's Dream, LP, 1992, Folk / Songwriter shelf, available from Kilmorna at EUR35.

On the shelf today

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream

LP / Folk / Songwriter / 1992

EUR35 / Available now

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