Nick Cave Skeleton Tree

4 stars out of 5 -- "Here is the dean of literary gothic song-craft, a master of wordplay, symbolism and irony, baring his soul like never before."
"At times, the music seems so weighty there could be nothing heavier. At others, it lifts and soars, pulled up and aloft by Cave's voice, here so restrained, so measured and so stately."
Paste (magazine) - "SKELETON TREE strips down embellishments and brings to the forefront sinister bass lines and a synthesizer that will widen the tear in your heart a little more with every note, especially on the ephemeral 'Distant Sky.'"
Clash (Magazine) - "Each of the eight tracks present on SKELETON TREE is a gaping wound, a chink in Cave's hardened carapace that is able to let out a little of the churning ink inside."