Skeleton Tree
by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 387 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 336 out of 387
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 387
  3. Negative: 37 out of 387
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#1 Best Album of 2016
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#35 Most Discussed Album of 2016
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#32 Most Shared Album of 2016

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Metascore
95

Universal acclaim - based on 36 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. Magnet
    Nov 16, 2016
    90
    No, we haven't heard this Cave before, and though magnetic, emotive and tenderly merciful, one prays for his sake that we never hear it again. [No. 137, p.51]
  2. The Wire
    Nov 8, 2016
    90
    It feels distasteful to rate so powerful, so raw an album in any aesthetic terms and yet it brilliantly, blackly, radiates life. Skeleton Tree is a work of mourning, yes; a work of reverie, yes; and also an immensely moving attempt to reach out of blackness towards life. [Nov 2016, p.65]
  3. Uncut
    Oct 25, 2016
    90
    The songs are pillowed by vaporous electronic backing that recalls the slow-moving, aquatic drift of Push The Sky Away and the sonic explorations of Cave and Ellis' Minimalist Soundtracks. [Dec 2016, p.26]
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