In 2010 Nick Cave's Bad Seeds offshoot Grinderman released their second album, Grinderman 2. Grinderman was very much a chance to do something away from the sometimes heavy expectations and history of the Bad Seeds, to play and have a little fun, 'less narrative' and 'more impressionistic' according to Nick. The first single from the album was Heathen Child and the video was not a standard Nick Cave piece of filmmaking...
'Hey little Momo/ Light as a rainbow/ Heavy as an asteroid/ Sitting in the bath tub'. A girl in a very milky looking bathtub. A wolf. Nick, Warren, Jim and Martyn dressed as Greek warriors. Laser beams blasting from eyes. Asteroids. Dancing. Horror. Sci fi. A smoke monster. Machine guns. Dancing. The wolfman.
Musically the blasts of distorted electric guitar and primitive drums are a garage punk thrill, as are the explosive, noisy choruses. It sounds like everyone had a good time making it.
There was a limited edition 12" single with an alternate take of the song with Robert Fripp on additional guitar- slightly longer, a bit gnarlier and more heathen.
More? There was also an Andrew Weatherall remix, Andrew and Timothy J. Fairplay stripping Grinderman down to the basics and extending them out; some drums, isolated bits of Nick's vocal, percussion and laser beams and a large wobbly synth bassline.
Heathen Child (Andrew Weatherall Bass Mix)
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