Australia's Dirty Three have covered a lot of ground over their ten-year career, and always as a trio: violinist Warren Ellis (also a prominent member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds), guitarist Mick Turner, and drummer Jim White (the latter two are also known a
Gloomy lyrics, dark musical arrangements, deep baritone voice, and an obsession over death & love with a frightening passion. Add Cave's hefty amount of post-punk experimentalism and you have Murder Ballads,
No More Shall We Part leaves listeners in awe, full of complex emotions, and pondering the notion that they've been in the presence of great redemptive art, which Henry James calls "the thing that can never be repeated."