The First Born Is Dead LP

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ The Firstborn Is Dead arrives like a Southern myth already in progress, its title already pointing toward absence, toward the ghost of Elvis’s twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, the life that never was but never quite left. The songs move through deserts, riverbeds, and half-remembered scripture, where the blues feels both inherited and unsettled. It feels like a story you’ve wandered into mid-sentence, one haunted by what was lost at the beginning and still shaping everything that follows. - Duane