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Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released on 4 October 2019 on Ghosteen Ltd and on 8 November 2019 on Bad Seed Ltd, both the band's own imprints. Ghosteen is a double album—the band's first since Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)—and the final part of a trilogy of albums that includes Push the Sky Away (2013) and Skeleton Tree (2016).
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Where Cohen stared down humanity's horror with a practiced stoicism, the Bad Seeds' goth-punk attack is sharp...
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- ↑ Treble Staff (2011). "The Top 200 Songs of the '80s". Treble. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
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- ↑ From Her to Eternity (sleeve). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. London, United Kingdom: Mute Records. 1984.
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