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Universal acclaim- based on 387 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 336 out of 387
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Mixed: 14 out of 387
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Negative: 37 out of 387
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Nov 2, 2016Feeling too happy? Accomplished some big goal and need to come down from the heights of joy most humans aspire to reach? Well, this album will have the most perky cheerleader on the planet in a pool of tears in mere seconds. Music or singing? Nope, not much here, just a very sad man talking. Deep deep sorrow? Yep, gallons of the stuff. Is that enough to sustain a record? No it is not.
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Sep 16, 2016
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Sep 25, 2016Could not even get through the first track. I absolutely hated this garbage. Way too much whining in the tracks. Spend your money on an album that doesnt suck so hard
Awards & Rankings
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MagnetNov 16, 2016No, we haven't heard this Cave before, and though magnetic, emotive and tenderly merciful, one prays for his sake that we never hear it again. [No. 137, p.51]
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The WireNov 8, 2016It feels distasteful to rate so powerful, so raw an album in any aesthetic terms and yet it brilliantly, blackly, radiates life. Skeleton Tree is a work of mourning, yes; a work of reverie, yes; and also an immensely moving attempt to reach out of blackness towards life. [Nov 2016, p.65]
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UncutOct 25, 2016The songs are pillowed by vaporous electronic backing that recalls the slow-moving, aquatic drift of Push The Sky Away and the sonic explorations of Cave and Ellis' Minimalist Soundtracks. [Dec 2016, p.26]