The Mercy Seat / New Day
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Type: Single
- Released: 23 May 1988
- Label: Mute
- Country: Australia
- Community rating: 4.24/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Built around a relentless lyrical meditation on execution and guilt, 'The Mercy Seat' became one of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' defining compositions. Its arrangement intensified the band's gothic post-punk roots with a looping, near-liturgical sense of dread.
Genres
Descriptors: repetitive, death, crime, biblical, theatrical
Tracklist
Credits
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - primary artist
- Blixa Bargeld - band [the bad seeds are]
- Kid Congo Powers - band [the bad seeds are]
- Mick Harvey - band [the bad seeds are]
- Roland Wolf - band [the bad seeds are]
- Thomas Wydler - band [the bad seeds are]
- PAG - plated by