Nothing funny about feldspar

From a Salon interview with Nick Cave (sit through an ad to read it):

So now you’re going through a midlife crisis and –

I was being slightly ironic.

So you’re dealing with these issues, and the sound of the album is wilder and looser than it’s been in a while.

[Cave snickers]

No? Musicians just don’t like to be told what they sound like! But your early music was also maybe written at a time of sexual frustration …

Well, actually, no. In the “Birthday Party” days it was pussy on tap. You had to beat it away with a stick. Are you saying that the music sounds like something we would have done when we were younger?

Yeah.

I reckon the music sounds something like, you know when you go to a disco and you see some middle-aged guy getting down? It sounds like some dad guy having a few drinks and going nuts in a disco. The young kids are loving it, we’re getting all this response from the kids, but we certainly weren’t trying to recapture some lost youth.

You were right, though. We just don’t like to be told where our music’s going. So get fucked. [Smiles]