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- Summary: Nick Cave's 15-year-old son died in an accident while he was working on the alternative rock band's 16th album. The recording sessions were filmed for Andrew Dominik's documentary, One More Time With Feel.
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- Record Label: Bad Seeds Ltd.
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Post-Punk
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I Need You | |
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When you're feeling like a lover Nothing really matters anymore I saw you standing there in the supermarket With your red dressing falling And your... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 36
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Mixed: 0 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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Sep 9, 2016It’s a record of unusual rawness, honesty and intensity.
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Sep 26, 2016From the first note to the last, you’re transported back to a time you lost someone close to you and then retrace the path you traveled as you dealt with it. I doubt this album inspires anyone to pick up a guitar or start a band and the experience it details is too personal to inspire other bands to make a similar album. But, if this isn’t a masterpiece... I don’t know what it is.
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Oct 24, 2016Skeleton Tree is a testament to his art, his flaying honesty and his persistence in the wake of devastating loss.
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Sep 14, 2016This great unknowing serves as the album’s guiding principle. In Cave’s wounded voice, you hear him grapple in real-time with the incidental prophecies of his lyrics and his need to get the job done.
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Sep 16, 2016The album peaks in its second half, with a series of songs in which Cave doesn't just again walk the narrow line between love and death, but ponders whether "nothing really matters anymore."
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Sep 20, 2016The trademark stridency of “Red Right Hand” or even “Mr Clarinet” is replaced with an altogether more measured and restrained vocal style, and the overall tone of Skeleton Tree is less abrasively didactic one than that of its fifteen predecessors.
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Sep 16, 2016Whatever one makes of the songs presented here, at least we should all be able to agree that another addition to Cave’s legendary, beyond comparison catalogue is in itself enough of a reason to feel very satisfied.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 33
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Mixed: 5 out of 33
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Negative: 3 out of 33
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Sep 9, 2016
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