Let Love In, the eighth album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, is in many ways the group’s wholly realised work. Even more than their 1998 Best Of, it stands as the best introduction to the eloquent and elegant netherworld of Godless fornicators, murderers, the bereft and drunk and lonely and lost conjured up by Cave and his suited cohorts. Recorded two years after the flawed (according to the band; many fans regard it as another classic) signpost that was Henry’s Dream, and just before the bloody and body-strewn Kylie-featuring Murder Ballads, Let Love In not only pointed towards The Bad Seeds’ future direction, but harked back to their blustering, violent roots.