Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Embrace Anguish on 'Skeleton Tree' — rollingstone.com

"All the things we love, we lose," Nick Cave sings on "Anthrocene," a dark and jazzy rumination on loss from Skeleton Tree, his captivating 16th album with backing band the Bad Seeds. The song as a whole is so understated and loose that the earnestness of his lyrics catch you by surprise. Here is the dean of literary gothic song-craft, a master of wordplay, symbolism and irony, bearing his soul like never before.

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