Push the Sky Away

Push the Sky Away is the fifteenth studio album by the Australian band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 18 February 2013 on the band's own label Bad Seed Ltd. Recorded at La Fabrique in southern France, with producer Nick Launay, it is the band's first album not to feature founding member Mick Harvey, who departed from the band in January 2009. The release also marked the return of founding member Barry Adamson, making his first album appearance since Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), and was the last to feature keyboardist and pianist Conway Savage, prior to his death in 2018.

Push the Sky Away was recorded at La Fabrique, a recording studio based in a 19th-century mansion in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. It was produced by Nick Launay, who produced Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds three previous studio albums—Nocturama (2003), Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)— and Grinderman's two studio albums. Segments of the album's recording sessions were featured in the official trailer for Push the Sky Away, which was posted on YouTube upon the album's announcement. The band entered the studio when Nick Cave had "unformed and pupal" ideas, and the band " them into things of wonder."

Founding Bad Seeds member Barry Adamson returned to the fold during the album's recording sessions, marking his first recording appearance since Your Funeral… My Trial (1986). Reflecting on the experience, Barry noted: "It was very weird. Mick Harvey had left and there was Warren and Thomas and Jim Sclavunos - and Martyn - and none of them were Bad Seeds when I was a Bad Seed, yet they'd all been in the band for much longer than me. I don't mean to sound derogatory, but it was like it had normalised. Nick Cave had found another way. He was using convention and turning it on its head. That's what got me. I thought, 'Ah, he's still fucking doing it. He's still fucking doing it.'"

The process of the recording was documented in the documentary, 20,000 Days on Earth, released on September 17, 2014.