Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsBest Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Albums Ranked

Ghosteen

nme

10

“The last few years have seen Nick Cave engage with fans more directly and openly than ever before. “You can ask me anything,” was the simple and direct message he posted to fans on the launch of his Red Hand Files website. Over the past 12 months, Cave answered questions from fans on everything from the banal to the grandiose. Last week, he used to site to casually announce that a new Nick Cave An”

Ghosteen

thelineofbestfit

10

“Nick Cave is in the form of his life, and Ghosteen is one of his greatest-ever achievements”

Skeleton Tree

nme

10

“It’s hard not to approach ‘Skeleton Tree’ as an album with an elephant in the room, a malevolent loiterer whose presence is liable to dominate and distort the listener’s entire field of vision. Nick Cave started work on his sixteenth Bad Seeds album well before the death of his 15 year-old son Arthur in July of last year, but whatever ‘Skeleton Tree’ was supposed to be, it’s now become his public ”

Wild God

exclaim

9.0

“By this point, there isn't much more that can be said about Nick Cave. A post-punk punk who evolved into one of music's elder statesmen, he's an eclectic, respected artist who has both the audience and the critics on his side.Over the last decade, Cave has published books, made soundtracks and albums, starred in films (mostly about himself, his family and his music) and suffered some truly harrowi”

Ghosteen

rollingstone

9.0

“As he continues to parse the loss of his teenage son, the main Bad Seed has created one of the most moving albums of his career”

Ghosteen

loudandquiet

9.0

“The 2016 documentary One More Time With Feeling is, first and foremost, a film about a person getting back to work after an event of unimaginable trauma. In this case, that person is Nick Cave, the work is the recording of the album ‘Skeleton Tree’, and the event of unimaginable trauma is the horrific accidental death of Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur in July 2015. “It was not an act of courage or ”