The climax, though, comes on the album’s centrepiece, and what is often argued to be The Bad Seeds’ finest moment, Red Right Hand. It delivers its menace quietly at first, a folk tale of some unspecified bogeyman
"A tall handsome man / In a dusty black coat"
who haunts not only the American gothic town depicted in Cave’s lyrics, but your weak, susceptible inner self:
"He’ll appear out of nowhere / And he ain’t what he seems... You’re one microscopic cog / In his catastrophic plan".
- Luke Turner reviewing for BBC Music