Skeleton Tree
The songwriter transfigures personal tragedy into growling, elemental elegies. On his latest collaboration with the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave pulls us through the gorgeous, groaning terrors of “Anthrocene” and “Jesus Alone” only to deliver us, scarred but safe, to “I Need You” and “Skeleton Tree,” a pair of tender, mournful folk ballads.
The veteran bard and his band's sixteenth album is one colored by tragic, unexpected loss, but it proves to be one of the most breathtaking albums of the year.
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Nick Cave’s lyrics have always dealt with love and grief - on ‘Skeleton Tree’ they’re more pronounced than ever.
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But a very real and deeply painful tragedy was visited on Cave while he was working on his 16th solo album, Skeleton Tree.
Nick Cave takes his deepest journey yet on Skeleton Tree, a solemn fugue on death, grief, yearning and both sides of mortality’s coin.
The shift in tone from 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! to Push The Sky Away to Skeleton Tree is sizeable, to say the least. You really have to m...
Let's get the obvious out of the way here. Fairly or not, it's almost impossible to talk about this record without talking about the unspeakable tragedy that befell Nick Cave during its making.
“I think I’m losing my voice,” admits Nick Cave in his latest film, One More Time With Feeling. “Just file it under lost things.
Recorded following the death of Cave’s son, the Bad Seeds’ 16th album explores loss elliptically and with painful vulnerability
Skeleton Tree is at once Cave’s darkest, most emotionally devastating work to date, and his most painfully vulnerable.
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'Skeleton Tree' Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, album review by Joshua Gabert-Doyon. The full-length is now out via Bad Seed Ltd/Sony Records.
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Funereal blues that do, in the end, suggest the possibility of redemption. Review by Guy Oddy