Nick Cave is in Los Angeles to record his new album.

Cave and the Bad Seeds, who have been relentlessly touring the heart-wrenchingly emotional Skeleton Tree which was released in 2016, have started work on its follow-up.

The news was confirmed by Cave’s wife, Susie Bick, while writing in the blog section of her website ‘The Vampires Wife’. Detailing her current bout of autumn flu, Bick went on to explain how her husband’s new songs are forming lucid dreams in her unwell state: “He is in LA making a new record,” she wrote. “Some of his songs reveal themselves at night in his fever dreams.

“They are his Fever Songs. What lovely jobs we have,” she added.

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In what is set to be yet more emotion poured into Cave’s songs, the Bad Seeds frontman will begin recording more music in wake of some tragic news. Conway Savage, the influential pianist of the, recently passed away at the age of 58.

Conway, who joined The Bad Seeds in 1990 and has been an integral member of the band since, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2017.