NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS: SKELETON TREE REVIEW
So basically this album is every bit as harrowing and melancholy as you would expect it to be. As the tremendous singer-songwriter-storyteller that he is, Nick Cave on his new album Skeleton Tree uses his plethora of sonic tools to paint a sorrowful picture with deep running concerns in loss and grief.
Having tragically lost his son little over a year ago, with only part of this album in creation at the time, this album displays the shattering effect and resonations such an event has had. One need look no further than the song “I Need You”, in which the emotion in Cage’s voice is near palpable, and definitely heartrending.
Focusing more on the instrumentation, everything feels expansive and yet somewhat vacant. With synths eerily sound-scaping the terrain onto which Cave often seems to simply wander atop, with delicate and often surreal worlds being wounded into its surface.
With death being so constantly close in Nick Cave’s discography, its rare to find it so ever-present without it being used as a dramatic or metaphoric device so often employed in his stories.
An experience not to be delved into lightly, and with this incredible new album, this year is shaping up to be one in which flirtations with death are abandoned for sheer confrontation.
Beauty and the Beast The Musical doesn’t just avoid deviating from the heart of the film; it crystallises the themes, encasing them like the enchanted rose, and makes the revisit feel worthwhile
What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me.
If you can leave your sanity behind and drink the Tim Robinson Kool-Aid, Friendship will be one of the funniest movies you’ll see this year.
Through a blend of music, dance, and spoken word, Child is a performance piece that seeks to reignite within us the joy, curiosity, and freedom that often gets eroded by the demands of life.
And at the centre of it is a marvellous performance by David Corenswet, who infuses this Man of Steel with a beguiling softness and an emotional intelligence.
The film feels earnest, and the performances are sincere enough to carry the runtime.
F1’s is an immersive, muscular melodrama about an aging race car driver who’s still got it. Well, he’s got his problems too.
Lighting, pyrotechnics, and early 2000s pop music are playfully woven together to immerse us in a theatrical montage of a drunken night out, where the tea is spilt and old resentments are finally laid bare.
Tightly scripted and well-paced, this is a consistent romp which knows when to circle…and when to bite.