Album Rating: 1.0

Anyone who thinks this is a masterpiece should check out their discog. This shit is honestly so weak in comparison to their best albums.

Album Rating: 3.0

Same, but with Skeleton Tree

Album Rating: 1.0

Yeah ST is mad weak too. Like... Why didn't people lose their shit over Push the Sky Away? That album is 10 times better than their last 2.

Album Rating: 4.0

these are loads better than push the sky away i think

Album Rating: 1.0

There are, I'm just perplexed that it never caught on when the two albums after it are so much weaker

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

could it be that...these last two albums are a little different?



and where there is difference there will be preference?

Album Rating: 4.3

I'm missing a few albums, especially from his early days, but Push the Sky Away would struggle to make top 10 Cave for me

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Push the Sky is quite trad a lot of the time Gyro



some of it is quite 'standard blues rock' - so your critique stands more for that



why listen to old school blues'y ballad stuff like 'Jubilee Street' when the dude has done 50 songs in a similar mould better in the past?

Album Rating: 1.0

Yeah Nick Cave decided to make audiobooks instead of singing. How could you not prefer that? Tbh Doof I'm surprised you aren't bashing this for being one of the cheesiest and overdramatic albums of the year.

Album Rating: 3.0

Fair enough, Johnny, but its up there for me. Probably top 10 idk. Discog so deep that it changes with my mood.



Anyway, second listen of this has been better than the first but I still miss uhhh the band. I want more percussion and I want traditional strings from Ellis. Trying to focus on what this is rather than what it isn't and it is kind of hard.

Bill Cosbys Ghost-dad.

Anyone?

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

since when did I inherently dislike spoken word music - I mean the tindersticks and lambchop are possibly my favourite two bands, and 'Benji' by Koz is close to my album of the decade :/



this is yes 'arty' and 'experimental' by design and that will turn a lot of people off - but not acknowledging that this is playing a very different game to quite a 'conventional sounding' chamber-ish guitar music'y album like Push the Sky Away is glossing over an awful lot



PTSA isn't far from Tom Waits or Tindersticks - no way Tom Waits or Tindersticks are releasing these last two albums. He's entered your Lou Reed 'anything goes' territory

Album Rating: 4.3

Oh yeah don't wanna slam the album - I dig - just wanted to respond to Gyro's confusion about people rating it up with the best

"Discog so deep that it changes with my mood"

So true

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

rating may slide. these instrumentals aren't even minimal. just blandly basic. without cave's vocals, no one would even bother with this shite.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

it's surely the mood mixing with the vocals that's the idea?



was this concept difficult?

Album Rating: 1.0

Agreed, the music is mostly very weak arrangements with overdramatic vocal.harmonies that wouldn't sound out of place in a Disney movie.

Album Rating: 1.0

Do you guys have a laxative you could give to sputnik.com? It's been on the shitter for a while now.

Album Rating: 4.5

It's just boycotting your bad takes, Gyro :D

Album Rating: 4.5

this is really hitting the spot. beautiful stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I quite like the idea of an artist reappropriating a Disney aesthetic to mix with something thematically opposed



It’s a criticism I’ve seen levelled at Mercury Rev’s ‘Deserters Songs’ and that’s one of the greatest albums of all time as far as I’m concerned