NICK CAVE "Tender Prey" 1988 UK MUTE 1st PRESS *MINT(-)

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  NICK CAVE "Tender Prey" 1988 UK MUTE 1st PRESS *MINT(-) GLOSSY SLEEVE w/LYRIC INNER, LIGHT PLAY - SUPERB AUDIO
NICK CAVE and the BAD SEEDS
Tender Prey


HERE WE HAVE A SUPERB, UK MUTE RECORDS (STUMM 52) FIRST PRESSING (September 1988) OF NICK CAVE and the BAD SEEDS' STUNNING "Tender Prey" LP - IN BEAUTIFUL, LIGHT PLAY CONDITION AND DELIVERING MINT(-) AUDIO THROUGHOUT - FANTASTIC STUFF

THE LP IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GLOSSY SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE
MATRICES: STUMM 52 - A 2 (1 crossed out) / STUMM 52 - B 2 (1 crossed out)

A SUPERB UK FIRST PRESSING OF AN ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS LP - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

With guitarist/keyboardist Roland Wolf and Cramps/Gun Club veteran Kid Congo Powers on guitar added to the ranks, along with guest appearances from old member Hugo Race, the Seeds reached 1988 with their strongest album yet, the insanely powerful, gripping Tender Prey.
Rather than simply redoing what they'd already done, Nick Cave and company took their striking musical fusions to deeper and higher levels all around, with fantastic consequences.
The album boldly starts out with an undisputed Cave masterpiece -- "The Mercy Seat," a chilling self-portrait of a prisoner about to be executed that compares the electric chair with the throne of God. Queasy strings from a Gini Ball-led trio and Mick Harvey's spectral piano snake through a rising roar of electric sound -- a common musical approach from many earlier Seeds songs, but never so gut-wrenching as here. Cave's own performance is the perfect icing on the cake, commanding and powerful, excellently capturing the blend of crazed fear and righteousness in the lyrics.
Matching that high point turns out to be impossible for anything else on Tender Prey, but more than enough highlights take a bow that demonstrates the album's general quality.
"Deanna" is another great blast from the Seeds, a garage rock-style rave-up that lyrically is everything Natural Born Killers tried to be, but failed at -- killing sprees, Cadillacs, and carrying out the work of the Lord, however atypically.
The echoing, gentle-yet-rough sonics on the Blind Willie Johnson-inspired "City of Refuge" and the gentler drama of "Sugar Sugar Sugar" also do well in keeping the energy level up.
On the quieter side, Cave indulges his penchant for gloomy piano-led ballads throughout, and quite well at that, with such songs as "Watching Alice," "Mercy," and the end-of-the-evening singalong "New Morning."
"Sunday's Slave" has a beautifully brooding feeling to it thanks to the combination of acoustic guitar and piano, making it a bit of a cousin of Scott Walker's "Seventh Seal."

Track Listing:
Side 1: The Mercy Seat / Up Jumped The Devil / Deanna / Watching Alice / Mercy
Side 2: City Of Refuge / Slowly Goes The Night / Sunday's Slave / Sugar Sugar Sugar / New Morning

LABELS: CLEAN, BRIGHT and UNMARKED with just a few light and barely noticeable spindle traces. THIS COPY HAS SEEN LIGHT PLAY ONLY
VINYL Visual: The surfaces retain their original DEEP, GLOSSY SHEEN and are practically UNMARKED (a few light hairlines caused by movement of the LP within its inner and some misting on the outer edge of the run-in groove but these have NO audio consequence)
VINYL Audio: OUTSTANDING audio - CRYSTAL CLEAR, SHARP, POWERFUL and VIBRANT SOUND - STUNNING LP. There are NO scratches, NO sticks/jumps, NO clicks or pops and only the lightest touch of (very occasional) surface noise (very, very minor and really, hardly worth a mention). The LP plays BEAUTIFULLY throughout to an extremely high standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion (its seen light play only). Must be graded MINT(-) for audio - the playback is practically FLAWLESS throughout. NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards (please check my feedback and "about me' page)
SLEEVE: The cover is MINT(-) with just some very light and very minor creases to the edges otherwise, CLEAN, SHARP and FACTORY-FRESH with all text on the sharp spine CLEAR and BOLD
INNER SLEEVE: The lyric inner is also in BEAUTIFUL, MINT(-) condition with NO splits or even much sign of handling at all just some light record impression. The LP is now housed - and will be posted in - a new inner to avoid any 'knifing' damage to the original during transit

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BEAUTIFUL UK FIRST PRESSING OF AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING LP - VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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