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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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Feb 6, 2017I'm very sorry for your lost, Nick, though. I'm not very moved by your songs, this time. And I do suggest another way of condolence expressing for artists later on instead of new album releasing. It's not pure.
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Sep 21, 2016
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Aug 15, 2019
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Oct 15, 2016
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Sep 14, 2016Skeleton Tree demonstrates the band's excellent lyricism while at the same time containing sloppy mixing, warbly, monotone vocals, unfitting instrumentals, awful sampling and a constant, drab, boring feeling that looms throughout most of the record.
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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]