Det var langtfra den positive overvældelse der prægede stemningen, da vi i går linkede op til Grinderman’s nye single ‘Heathen Child’. Vores indtryk her af en uengageret ligegyldighed hos afsenderen, viser sig dog heldigvis at stå i skarp kontrast til hans egen oplevelse af sangen.

I love the song, and I’m really pleased with the lyric. It was taken away and worked on quite a lot after the fact. But the essence of that song is kind of a riffing and an ad lib on the idea of a girl in a bath – being kind of raped by monsters of her subconscious. She’s the innocent trembling on adulthood – that was the theme. And I’m really pleased about where that went because it’s obscure, magical and non-narrative enough to keep you interested. You don’t have to sit there and follow the narrative. It becomes part of the song itself. I feel I’m getting to some simpler, truer place with a song like that.

Nick Cave, Uncut Magazine, september 2010