Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds might just be washing down after their recent get together, the excellent Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! (read our review here, and a live review here) but Cave has confirmed he’s already turning his attention elsewhere.

Speaking to XFM he declared that there’ll be a new Grinderman album en route…

“There’s a lot of work around the Grinderman project that we wanna do in a more serious way this time. The thing about Grinderman was that we just threw out the record and we made it very quickly. We wondered about its affect on us and it was hugely important on The Bad Seeds.

“When we go in to make the next Grinderman record we don’t want it to sound like the last Bad Seeds record, or the Grinderman record before. We’re forced to find something new, but that’s always been the way.

“The thing that Grinderman will remain committed to is that it doesn’t matter; if the whole thing goes belly-up and if people really hate it then we don’t care because we have the Bad Seeds anyway, so that gives us an enormous amount of freedom to go and spend three months in Bulgaria or something.”

“We’re going out in a playing mode so we can get in the mood for making the new record, that’s why we’re doing the live stuff.”

Good stuff…