Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part (2xLP)

No More Shall We Part is the 11th studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on April 10, 2001. The album came after a four-year gap from recording, following the much-acclaimed album The Boatman's Call. Cave had to overcome heavy heroin and alcohol addictions in 1999-2000 before starting work on the album. It was met with mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a generally favorable score of 79, based on 18 reviews.

The album showcases the virtuoso talents of the Bad Seeds, with elaborate instrumental sections on nearly every track. Additionally, Cave's lyrics are less obscure than usual, and he sings in a wider vocal range than he had previously, reaching alto on several tracks. The album features the song 'Hallelujah" as well as the ballad "Love Letter" featuring backing vocals by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

Two musical directors - the ubiquitous Mick Harvey and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis - craft a sonic atmosphere whose textures deepen and widen Cave's most profound and beautiful lyrics to date. The ballads have the wide, spacious, sobering ambience one has come to expect from the Bad Seeds...As both a singer and a songwriter, Cave's work has been transformed into something so full of depth, color, and dimension that there is simply no one except his mentors working on this level in popular music.

-Thom Jurek, AllMusic.com, 4.5/5 stars