Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release B-Sides & Rarities Part II, the long anticipated follow up to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities, on 22 October. This collection will be released across four formats: a Deluxe 2CD housed in a rigid slipcase featuring exclusive photographs and sleeve notes by Sean O’Hagan (The Guardian & The Observer), Standard Double Gatefold on 2 x 180g Black LP, Standard 2CD in digifile and Digital Audio Album.

B-SIDES & RARITIES PART II was compiled by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and features 27 tracks from “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” in 2006 to 2019s “Ghosteen”. Also features 19 rare and unreleased tracks including first recordings of ‘Skeleton Tree’, ‘Girl in Amber’, ‘Bright Horses’ and ‘Waiting for You’.

LP1

Side A

A1. Hey Little Firing Squad

A2. Fleeting Love

A3. Accidents Will Happen

A4. Free To Walk (With Debbie Harry)

A5. Avalanche*

A6. Vortex*

Side B

B1. Needle Boy

B2. Lightning Bolts

B3. Animal X

B4. Give Us a Kiss

B5. Push The Sky Away

(Live with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)*

LP2

Side A

A1. First Skeleton Tree*

A2. King Sized Nick Cave Blues*

A3. Opium Eyes*

A4. Big Dream (With Sky)*

A5. Instrumental #33*

A6. Hell Villanelle*

A7. Euthanasia*

A8. Life Per Se*

Side B

B1. Steve McQueen*

B2. First Bright Horses*

B3. First Girl in Amber*

B4. Glacier*

B5. Heart that Kills You*

B6. First Waiting for You*

B7. Sudden Song*

B8. Earthlings*