Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey (Vinyl LP)The dark, poetic troubadour tendencies hinted at in Cave's work as early as his first album's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Avalance' blossom on 1988's Tender Prey. In a style recalling Cohen and Tom Waits, Cave ups the lyrical ante considerably here. On gory detail oriented, literate tunes like 'Up Jumped the Devil' and 'Mercy', Cave's second life as a novelist (he would soon author a book) is obvious. Here, the distance he achieves from his inner demons