Nick Cave has forged an incredibly sprawling, prolific career. The brooding Australian punk rocker, novelist, and Goth balladeer has been known to leave his audiences in tears of rapture with live renditions of his exquisitely miserable music. He’s enhanced the film world with his soundtracks for several Wim Wenders films and the 2003 documentary Winged Migration, and he’s even acted in a few movies (most notably in Wings of Desire). For The Proposition, his latest film project, he provided both the story, about a pair of outlaw brothers roaming the Australian Outback during the 1880s, and this appropriately haunting and ambient soundtrack, a collaboration with violinist Warren Ellis.
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