Nick Cave / & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree ( vinyl LP )

Release date: 2016-09-30

2016 EU issue vinyl LP - Cave as a masterful storyteller with usually dark themes. But it is also just craftsmanship. Cave is in it, but you never know how personal it will get. That narrative character of his songs is largely missing on Skeleton Tree, because he just can't do it now. The control freak has lost control and that makes Skeleton Tree as moving as it is fascinating.

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You fell from the sky, crash-landed in a field near the River Adur. Skeleton Tree opens with a heartbreaking line that Nick Cave never wanted to sing. We all know the story; the phrase refers to his fifteen-year-old son Arthur, who fell off a high cliff on July 14, 2015. . .The blues, the elementary foundation of his entire oeuvre. But the blues and personal drama is certainly not one-two for Nick Cave. In fact, the recent suffering caused him an artistic crisis, as the film One More Time With Feeling – shown around the release of Skeleton Tree – shows.

Cave as a masterful storyteller with usually dark themes. But it is also just craftsmanship. Cave is in it, but you never know how personal it will get. That narrative character of his songs is largely missing on Skeleton Tree, because he just can't do it now. The control freak has lost control and that makes Skeleton Tree as moving as it is fascinating.