As has been the case with his last couple albums, Nick Cave’s powerful new collection Carnage arrived with some amount of mystery. He mentioned he and Warren Ellis were going into the studio, and soon after in another Red Hand Files post he said they’d made an album called Carnage, and soon after that the album was here. Since then, he’s started to offer some more details. In a recent Red Hand Files letter, he wrote about the friend who inspired “White Elephant,” Carnage‘s standout track. And in today’s Red Hand Files, Cave reflects on how the album was made — and some future plans surrounding it.