OK, so there’s only a lyric video out for Long Dark Night so far, but wow.
This was goosebump-inducing when I heard it on 6 Music this week. And so powerful was the reaction to that first play, that Mary Anne Hobbs (for it was she), played it again immediately afterwards. I’m not sure I remember that happening with any other record before.
Apparently inspired by the poem “Dark Night of the Soul” by the 16th-century Spanish poet St. John of the Cross, which Cave describes as:
…one of the greatest and most powerful poems of conversion ever written
Either way, it’s a compelling, dramatic, haunting track, which continues to bode well for the new album out at the end of next month.