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10.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Nick Cave is in the form of his life, and Ghosteen is one of his greatest-ever achievements
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The Irish Times
Grief and loss never sounded so beautiful
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The Independent
Cave sounds buoyed, not weakened, by exposing his wounds on this astonishing album
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The Guardian
The most beautiful songs he has ever recorded
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NME
Like C.S. Lewis’ 'A Grief Observed', this devastating album is the work of an artist attempting to make sense of loss. "Peace will come," Nick Cave assures us, although it never really does
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Absolute perfection
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The Observer
In the first album wholly written since the death of his son, Cave reaches an extraordinary, sad and beautiful artistic evolution
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Consequence Of Sound
A record that blurs life's hard lines and searches for peace, love, and beauty
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A.V. Club
Ghosteen is both his most solitary recording since 2001’s No More Shall We Part and impossible to imagine without the contributions of The Bad Seeds
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musicOMH
Yes, it can be painful, but there’s a beautiful catharsis contained within Ghosteen that makes it one of the most essential records of recent times – a lifejacket for anyone surfing that dreadful wave of grief
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Mojo
It's a difficult world, and there will be no moderator, but with Ghosteen, Cave finds a way to reach out, and reach through. Print edition only
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Gig Soup
A piece of work that’s difficult but hopeful, full of darkness but supplier of enough light to illuminate its every square inch. One that’s gentle yet staggering, beautiful yet devastating. Like so many entries in the Bad Seeds’ back catalogue, this is music that makes you feel alive – and what more could we ever ask for?
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Under The Radar
Ghosteen is an almost supernaturally wonderful record. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Nick Cave album — yet somehow unlike anything he has done before
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Rolling Stone
Ghosteen is a masterpiece of melancholy. You mourn right along with him and hope he finds solace
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Clash
‘Ghosteen’ is not a blissful or comfortable album, but it is a hopeful one
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Spectrum Culture
One of the most challenging and most beautiful of Cave’s career
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PopMatters
The anguish a parent feels for losing their child is harrowing and Ghosteen masterfully captures Nick Cave's grief and spiraling rumination on mortality
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Uncut
A haunting search for peace of mind
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Loud And Quiet
Warren Ellis’ electronics – picking up not just from Skeleton Tree but from the film soundtrack work on which he and Cave have been moonlighting – here are at their most dominant and at their most astonishingly beautiful
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Crack
On Ghosteen Cave seems more vital than ever, a master of his craft who has taken the immense nature of grief and channelled it into an album that burns with beauty
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Slant Magazine
The album explores the contradiction between the individual pain of grief and the universality of death
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8.8
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Pitchfork
Forty years into his career, Nick Cave emerges with one of his most powerful albums yet, an endlessly giving and complex meditation on mortality and our collective grief
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Paste Magazine
Cave’s radical openness has brought him into conversation and solidarity with this global community of people who have lost and who continue to live. For such people, Ghosteen is a sweeping and remarkable gift
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
It’s an intriguing, somewhat beguiling listen and, surprise or not, an infinitely beautiful, heartbreaking album that only a master can create
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Exclaim
It surely ranks among Cave and company's most ambitious efforts, and maybe among their most affecting, too
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Gigwise
Despite a few questionable experimental moments (that simply make the albums more Bad Seeds-eque) the highlights soar to towering heights, making the piece a triumph
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The FT
Synthesiser drones, strings and solemn piano chords form the backdrop of an album poignantly exploring grief
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8.0
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Evening Standard
All in all, it’s a lot to process — not lighter but endlessly absorbing
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Q
Cave's voice quivers through a series of desperate quests fro consolation. Print edition only
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All Music
Cave's vocals often seem more like recitations than singing (and that's literally what they are on the spoken word piece "Fireflies"), though the nuanced passion of his delivery is mesmerizing and ranks with the most affecting performances of his life.
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The Arts Desk
The chiselled lyrics of latter-day Cave the sober working writer feel illuminated
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God Is In The TV
It may not be Nick’s best opus, but this is certainly what he does best: not exactly subverting expectation, but forcing us to reassess our instruments of appraisal entirely
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