release date: Sep. 9, 2016
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,78]
producer: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Nick Launay
label: Bad Seed Ltd. - nationality: Australia
Tracklist: 1. "Jesus Alone" - 2. "Rings of Saturn" (4 / 5) - 3. "Girl in Amber" - 4. "Magneto" - 5. "Anthrocene" - 6. "I Need You" - 7. "Distant Sky" - 8. "Skeleton Tree"
16th studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is a quiet and emotional release with stress under singer / songwriter. During the recording sessions for the new album, Nick Caves 15-year-old son Arthur died from an accidental cliff fall, which naturally, had a huge impact on the completion of the album. Several songs were rewritten, new ones were included, and the sound was altered to fit themes of loss, death and grief. What could have been an almost identical sound and style to its successor, Push the Sky Away from 2013, shows instead a much more scarce instrumentation and an even more naked Cave, who digs in and narrates about his loss. He does that quite wisely, making it an album about general aspects about loss, death and grief, and at the same time manages to create fine songs.
One of the best albums of the year, and frankly, one of the absolute best ever from Nick Cave.
