Grinderman announce plans to reissue full back catalogue
Nick Cave‘s Grinderman have announced plans to reissue their entire discography on July 18th.
Along with Cave, the group also consists of Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos who all play in the Bad Seeds with the Australian musician. During their time together, they released Grinderman in 2007, Grinderman 2 in 2010 and lastly, the remix album Grinderman 2 RMX in 2012.
The group disbanded in 2011 to focus on the Bad Seeds, but they did reunite in 2013 for special performances at Coachella in California.
All three albums are now set to be reissued on eco-conscious black vinyl and digisleeve CD editions for the first time.
Cave addressed a potential reunion on his Red Hand Files newsletter in 2018, explaining to fans, “Many of you have asked about the reformation of Grinderman, although most not with the same lurid flair as you, so I sat with Warren and we discussed whether it was a good idea. We both thought the world needed Grinderman, considering its current emotional climate. Warren wanted to wait until Trump got re-elected, in the hope he would invite us to play ‘No Pussy Blues’ at the presidential celebrations
He continued: “I personally felt there was no urgency, and that the older we got, the better Grinderman would be – the more deranged, the more priapic, and the more morally dubious. We both thought that Grinderman appeared to be a lot more popular now than when it existed, and we wondered whether that was simply the band passing into folklore”
Cave also questioned “whether the world had become, in the last years, more puritanical, less playful, and more hypersensitive, and that there were a lot of people out there, like you Marvin, who just wanted to listen to a band that fucked things up a bit.”
Seven years later, with the world still in disarray, Cave has continued to resist getting Grinderman back together.
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