Describing Push the Sky Away in the album's press release, Nick Cave said: 'if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat.' The songs on the album were written over the course of twelve months and 'took form in a modest notebook' kept by Cave. The notebook contained notes on the album's songs, which were composed from 'Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries 'whether they’re true or not'. 'According to Cave, the songs illustrate how the internet has influenced 'significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities' and 'question how we might recognise and assign weight to what's genuinely important.'

1. Live

Live

2013 studio from the veteran singer/songwriter and his longtime backing band. Push the Sky Away was produced by Nick Launay and recorded at La Fabrique, a recording studio based in a 19th Century mansion in the South of France, where the walls of the main studio are lined with an immense collection of classical vinyl.