NICK Cave has described his latest album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! as an "exorcism".
He said: "This new record was really hard to write. It took a really long time. I mean, lyrically, it took a really long time.
"It took a month to sort of clear the decks and get rid of kind of Grinderman influences and old Bad Seeds or old kind of Nick Cave song style influences and try and write something that was a bit different, you know, and that's not something I can do overnight."
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He also talked about his fascination with the biblical figure of Lazarus who inspired the album's title track, saying: "I used to sit in Bible classes - Sunday School - in the church in the town that I grew up in when I was a kid, you know, and the figure of Lazarus always worried me.
"There was kind of Christ's miracle, but it kind of traumatised me a bit, about Lazarus and how he would feel and this guy being raised up from the tomb and wandering around.
"You never really find out what happened to him or even if he particularly liked the experience, so it felt kind of nice to pursue that idea."
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