“Push the Sky Away,” the 15th studio album of alternative rock group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is underwhelming.

Without any other original member of the Bad Seeds, Cave has mellowed out to something that would suffice for background music studying, but not much more.

The lyrics are almost too simple and read like an acid trip he can’t quite remember.

The official Nick Cave YouTube channel, NickCaveTV, showcases the appeal of “Push the Sky Away” best with similarly simple videos, only featuring scrolling lyrics stamped out by typewriter on yellowing slips of paper.

His stream-of-consciousness technique reached a real low with lyrics like that in the track “Mermaids”: “She was a catch/ And we were a match/ I was the match/ That would fire up her snatch.”

Cave has not necessarily lost his touch, but this album is not comparable to the material that has earned the Bad Seeds its fan base.