is the fourteenth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Dig features the same personnel as the Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus double album (though the involvement of both Johnston and pianist Conway Savage is dramatically reduced).

[5] On the band's official website Cave wrote about his inspiration for the album: Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it.

I've taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel.

I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved.

[6]A series of viral video trailers for the album were produced by artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

The "More News From Nowhere" video released in May 2008, features cameo appearances by journalist Will Self, singer Beth Orton, British TV actors Karl Theobald, Michael Higgs and Caroline Catz plus British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster and socialite/ broadcaster Peaches Geldof.

as a "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" and stated that "just when The Bad Seeds seemed content to settle into middle-age as a cabaret gospel showband – albeit an extraordinary one – they've bared their teeth again".

[13] Alastair McKay of Uncut wrote that "the band has never sounded better, and Cave seems to have relaxed into the hysteria of his vocal style; like Elmer Gantry singing Leonard Cohen at a tent-revival.

[20] David Harris of Tiny Mix Tapes said that "rock, country, blues, and post-punk rhythms meld with Cave’s lyrics on sex, death, God, and America to create what could be one of his most perfect albums yet",[2] while Matt Fink of Paste called the album "vintage Cave.