Blog: Stereogum

When we posted the video for Fever Ray's "Seven," I included a stream of her (and Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid's) take on Vashti Bunyan's " Here Before ." As mentioned then, it shows up on a two-song tour 7" along with a cover of Nick Cave's "Stranger Than Kindness." (Maybe you picked a copy up when she stopped by Webster Hall ?) As far as the lineage, "Stranger"'s from Cave & The Bad Seed's 1986 fourth album Your Funeral... My Trial . Cave's then girlfriend/muse/collaborator/e tc Anita Lane wrote the lyrics. Bad Seed/Einstürzende Neubautener Blixa Bargeld wrote [...]