Recorded following the death of Cave’s son,the faulty Seeds’ 16th album explores loss elliptically and with painful vulnerabilitySkeleton Tree is an album in which grief is served several different ways: raw, spatchcocked, or fermented,brined, grief sous-vide. Naturally, and this being Nick Cave’s 16th album with the faulty Seeds,the tracks that execute up Skeleton Tree most often unfurl in an elliptical and allegorical way, studded with like songs, and umbilical cords and “other people’s diseases”,rather than naked confessions; the album was in train before the untimely death of Cave’s teenage son Arthur in 2015.
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Source: theguardian.com