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After five years — that included the second Grinderman album, which we’d rather forget — Nick Cave is back with 15th Bad Seeds album. Push the Sky Away won’t be out till Tuesday the 19th, but you can stream the whole thing now at NPR Music, where Stephen Thompson calls it “a string of slow-burning ballads that seethe and surprise, punctuated with Warren Ellis’ gorgeous strings and bits of Cave’s own grabby, pervy innuendo.” We’ve been listening to the album for a few days now, and still aren’t entirely able to reconcile Cave’s aging lothario persona with the gentler tone of theses songs — not to mention that bizarre Hannah Montana shout out.