Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

This article is about the album. For the album's title song, see Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (song).

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Studio album by
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released3 March 2008
RecordedJune–July 2007
Genre
Length53:35
Label
ProducerNick Launay, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
The Abattoir Blues Tour
(2007) 		Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
(2008) 		Live at the Royal Albert Hall
(2008)
Singles from Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  1. "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!"
    Released: 18 February 2008
  2. "More News From Nowhere"
    Released: 12 May 2008
  3. "Midnight Man"
    Released: 28 July 2008

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is the fourteenth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The album was recorded in June and July 2007 at The State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, London and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove Studios in Chiswick, and was released on 3 March 2008.

It was the last album to feature founding member Mick Harvey, who left the Bad Seeds in 2009, and organist James Johnston, who left the band before the support tour. It was also the second without founding member Blixa Bargeld. Dig features the same personnel as the Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus double album (though the involvement of both Johnston and pianist Conway Savage is dramatically reduced). It is also the first to be released since the Bad Seeds side project Grinderman released their eponymous album. In several interviews Cave stated the album would "sound like Grinderman," implying a garage rock sound. In line with this approach, the album was recorded in about five days, an uncommonly short period for a full-length album from the band.[4]

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! features artwork by British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster. At the J Awards of 2008, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year.[5]

  1. ^ "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (album review)". NME. 21 February 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
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  4. ^ "Interview With Nick Launay" Archived 29 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, HitQuarters, 16 November 2009.
  5. ^ "2008 J Awards". ABC. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2020.