The new Bauhaus album is bad-bad. Skip it. There's a reason they didn't release it until now (it was recorded like 2 years ago).
The new Nick Cave album is definitely one of his best, and probably the most compulsively listenable. It's got clean production, a diverse list of songs, and they all have hooks and sound pleasant. Nick's lyrics are as good as they've ever been, too. Makes me think that he's going to use Grinderman for his "rougher" music and The Bad Seeds for the more carefully constructed stuff. I can live with that.