No More Shall We Part

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No More Shall We Part
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Studio album by
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released2 April 2001
RecordedSeptember and October 2000
Studio Abbey Road Studios and Westside Studios, London
Length67:47
Language English
Label Mute
Producer Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Tony Cohen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
(1998)		No More Shall We Part
(2001)		 Nocturama
(2003)
Singles from No More Shall We Part
  1. "As I Sat Sadly by Her Side"
    Released: 19 March 2001
  2. "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow"
    Released: 21 May 2001
  3. "Love Letter"
    Released: 25 February 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Entertainment Weekly C− [3]
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Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME 8/10 [6]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 (2001) [7]
8.0/10 (2011) [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]

No More Shall We Part is the eleventh studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 2 April 2001 in the UK (and 10 April in the US). The record, which was well received critically, came after a 4-year gap from recording, following the much acclaimed album The Boatman's Call and subsequent 'Best Of' album.

Contents

Nick Cave had to overcome heavy heroin and alcohol addictions in 1999–2000 before starting work on the album. It featured guest appearances by Kate & Anna McGarrigle and was met with mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a generally favourable score of 79, based on 18 reviews. [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Nick Cave, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."As I Sat Sadly by Her Side" 6:15
2."And No More Shall We Part" 4:00
3."Hallelujah"Nick Cave, Warren Ellis 7:48
4."Love Letter" 4:08
5."Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" 5:36
6."God Is in the House" 5:44
7."Oh My Lord" 7:30
8."Sweetheart Come"Nick Cave, Barry Adamson 4:58
9."The Sorrowful Wife" 5:18
10."We Came Along This Road" 6:08
11."Gates to the Garden" 4:09
12."Darker with the Day"Nick Cave, Warren Ellis6:07

A limited-edition version included a bonus disc with two extra tracks, plus multi-media CD-ROM files (the 2 bonus tracks also appeared on the UK double 12" vinyl pressing of the album):

Bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Grief Came Riding"5:07
2."Bless His Ever Loving Heart"4:02
3."As I Sat Sadly by Her Side" (video) 
4."No More Shall We Part EPK" (video) 

The bonus disc also includes an enhanced section featuring lyrics, photo gallery, biography, album discography, interview, and internet links.

Singles

Personnel

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Guest musicians

Production

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy—30,000 [13]
Norway (IFPI Norway) [14] Gold25,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [15] Silver60,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Exhibitions inspired by the album

In 2019, Greek artist Stefanos Rokos, presented his artistic approach to the album "No More Shall We Part" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, an art exhibition that started its journey in Greece and travelled to Antwerp, Belgium. The NMSWP part project is a testimony of Stefanos Rokos' personal proposal for a dialectic to be developed between two artistic forms- those of painting and songwriting, which have all along constituted the very core of artistic expression and creativity.

Nick Cave said about the paintings: "It was extraordinary to stand in the studio and see the paintings for real – the grandeur of them, with all their congested details and terrifying blank spaces. I feel connected to the essence of them. I feel they are very close to the way I write lyrics – intense bursts of memory, ecstatic detail, sudden erotics, esoteric imagery; the forging of frozen narratives that hover about like dreams, haunted and strange and life-affirming."

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