Original released on Double CD Bad Seed BS019
(EU, June 2020)
Nick Cave has left it awfully late in his career to record his masterpiece, but with "Idiot Prayer" he removes any argument about which is his best album. The cover promises 'Nick Cave alone at Alexandra Palace' - just a man and a piano. Alone with his astonishing cast of gods, ghosts, lovers, murderers and victims, all brought to visceral life by Cave's emotive, spare reading of his best songs over 40 years. How on earth he finds new life in Mercy Seat defies the myriad covers - Cash included - of this dark hymn, but find new nuance he does. Put this album on continuous play for a day - seriously, it works just as well as 'background music' as it does on close examination - and be drawn into Cave's dark world. Darkness has never felt as beautiful as this: Cave has stared pandemic irrelevance in the face and delivered it a massive smite. Five stars hardly seems enough for an album that transcends masterpieces such as "The Boatman's Call", "No More Shall We Part" and the underrated "Push The Sky Away". Incredible, simply incredible. (Owen Davies in AllMusic)
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