Nick Cave The Boatman's Call

4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Over spare piano, he croons of love and pain, brooding over an old flame in 'West Country Girl.'"
"With this set of sparse piano-based crooners, Cave has created, wittingly or not, a kindler, gentler companion to last year's gloomy, dyspeptic, brilliant MURDER BALLADS..." - Rating: B+
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997."
"Safe to say nobody writes an aching love ballad quite like the cadaverous Australian."
5 stars out of 5 - "...A tortured break-up album to rival Dylan's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, and every bit as affecting..."
"...a quiet, piano-laden disc filled with ballads, and dirges, where Cave's voice throughout is stately and measured, never aggressive....a somberly mature record..."
Ranked #26 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year."
Ranked #11 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[A] ballad-based beauty..."
"Muted, often desperately unoptimistic collection about Cave's recent relationships..."
Ranked #23 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll.
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he album saw The Bad Seeds bring their most masterful, hushed performances to bear on Cave's most sparse, naked, heart-rending lyrics..."