Post-punk much more off-putting than most of its counterparts. Lots of discordance, very jangly, purposefuly playing on your nerves, but I tend to like this kind of atmospheres. The way Cave is singing is also interesting, alternating between his disctinctive voice and grunts. Not the best album ever, but way more interesting that all the dad rock and other nonsense this list is full of.
You might expect an album by a band called The Birthday Party to be mainly songs about jelly, cake and balloons, but hello, who’s this shambling into the studio? That’s right kiddies, it’s our old friend Nick Cave fronting this post punk band and sounding like Tom Waits, if he’d decided to focus on heroin instead of booze. This is reliably good stuff from Cave though, and clearly shows where he would be heading later with the Bad Seeds and his solo work. One track of note is ‘Release the Bats’ which was an early proto-goth song, featuring the memorable line "sex horror sex bat sex sex horror sex vampire sex bat horror vampire sex." Goth-tastic!