Artist: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Nick Cave has done a lot to mellow over the hellfire punk image of his raucous youth in recent ears. To me, a lot of the "mature" work has been a yawn. But his soundtracks with late-arriving Bad Seed Warren Ellis ( The Assassination of Jesse James , The Proposition , The Road ) have been just stunning. For some reason, the duo's excellent score for the equally excellent recent (and surprisingly acrobatic) staging of The Metamorphosis [...]

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