The Boatman's Call

Really slow and boring

Some of the lyrics are interesting and thought provoking, and some of the instrumentation is nicely done, but for whatever reason Nick's voice just isn't my bag, baby.

Nice sound, and a big departure from yesterday's Iron Maiden. Dark, slow, sombre mood. No real stand-out songs. Not enough to make me come back to this album

"Into my arms" sounds very familiar, I'm sure I heard it somewhere without realizing it was Nick Cave.

I don’t get it

Started interesting but just too mellow and depressing

A melancholy walk around Great Park. 12 nearly identical songs, was just waiting for it to end.

It is unique I will give it that but not all creative or good in my opinion. More like a poetry slam with the same middle school band playing the same chords over and over in the background. Definitely could live without ever hearing this album.

I will sooner see the 2026 Supergirl film than listen to the THIRD sad-sack Nick Cave album from this list.

stop please

Nico Cueva es como si Johnny Cash hubiese nacido y se hubiese criado en Palermo...y sin talento.

Not for me. 1/5

Melancholic to say the least.

1.5/5 Best Song: Into My Arms Worst Song: West Country Girl Weirdest Song: Black Hair Honorable Mention: People Ain't No Good Made me sleepy and sad.

Could this album be more depressing? If you have started to lose faith in humanity, the song "People Ain't No Good" isn't going to help with that. I was having a really great day and then I started listening to this album and suddenly I was depressed and just wanted to crawl into my bed and not leave. 1 star

Parece música de iglesia, terrible, me aburrió mucho

nick cave & the bad songs

1/5

laaaaaaaaame. this guy STINKS

Just dreary. All of the songs have a small chord progression that loops for 5 minutes at a time. I understand that there is some poetry going on but without any vocal inflection at all, I don't care about the poetry. Just dragged on and on and on and made me feel depressed.

I was very patient with this album. I waited and I listened. And I was not rewarded. I found this album to be depressing and not in a satisfying way. It’s just so boring and dry and slow, it’s the antithesis of everything I struggle to relate to and connect with. My biggest gripe with this album is I find Nick caves voice very bland and underwhelming. Nothing about this album does anything for me.

Really not a fan

He looks like one of the bad guys from The Goonies. Listening to this is like an exercise in trying to stay awake while being read the most intensely boring bedtime story you've ever had to endure.

Not this stupid ass guy again. Fucking hate this

Enough with the Nick Cave already. Every album I think "this is the one" but no just another hour I wont get back.

Geen ritme ✅️ geen rijmschema ✅️ elk nummer hetzelfde ✅️ iam14andthisisdeep tekst ✅️ yep, 1 ster tijd

It's bad. Pretty boring until West Country Girl, and dropping off again after. I don't understand why this album would make anyone's list of albums to listen to before you die. It's not good nor is it revolutionary in any way. Perhaps if I was clinging to life and someone wanted me to give up then they could play this album for me.

So boring, and doesn’t catch me at all.

I don't like Nick Cave's music. There. I said it.

two Nick Cave albums in two weeks is not what I call fun. This album sounds like Tom Waits from Wish mixed with Leonard Cohen from Kijiji. The discount Cohen is so strong on songs like "Into my Arms", this is more then inspiration, its practically parody without self awareness. But most importantly holy shit is this a boring album. It's like Cohen without the smart writing, dull ranting set to sparse instrumentation. I rated down the last Nick Cave album for the slower late section, but gave it a 3 based on there still being sections I liked. I actually hated this album. Even the songs that pick up the pace like "There is a Kingdom" sound like shitty church music in the worst way. I seldom call things pretentious, but this album thinks it is so much smarter then it is that it gets actively annoying. Struggle to Finish. 1 star.

I hate Nick Cave.

Is Nick Cave Australia's Tom Waits? He definitely feels like it. Maybe with touches of Leonard Cohen? Just like those two, I just don't get Nick Cave. I'm glad he believes in love, but you could have fooled me with his weird cadence and monotone singing voice.

Didn't like it at all.

he looks like an older Derek Zoolander

Get Nick Cave the fuck out of my face

Every song sounds like an ode to complete misery, even if it isn't meant to be. A real challenge to get through it. There are other albums where I've struggled to get through but not like this one, terrible.

More portentous piano ballads from the world's dullest Leonard Cohen wannabe.

Didn’t listen, didn’t sound like something I’d like

If Frankenstein had clinical depression and recorded an album, it would sound like this, but might actually be better. "Green Eyes" is the only track you really need to hear to determine if you want to subject yourself to the rest of this drivel, and trust me, you won't want to.

Monotonous, a suggested song come ok after and i thought FINALLY a good song but nope it was a completely different artist.

Was gonna give it a 2, but "twinkling cunt" made it loose a point. Dear god. Basic ass straight white man music.

man whines over piano

Ugh

I don't enjoy Nick Cave's voice.

Little slow for me personally

I still don’t get it.

Kinda boring

Ich wüsste wirklich gerne, wann ich das letzte Mal derartig belanglose Musik gehört habe. Ganz fürchterlich.

Depressing af

Whos gonna tell the bloke he cant sing? +3 ponts for the utterly beautiful aesthetic on "Into your arms", and minus 2 points for the last song (Green Eyes) which would be enough to qualify him for legal euthanasia

This is one of the most boring albums I’ve ever heard.

How many times is this guy in here? I can only give so many low ratings

I hate this type of music. It's performative depression set to music. Why do so many people try to tell me how great this is?

More like No thanks mate and the bad album

genuine torture to listen to the lyrics are so mind numbing its actually crazy everything else is pretty chill tho

I used to be ambivalent about Nick Cave. Now I hate him. Four albums? Pardon me while I blow my brains out.

Not my style of music. Did not like at all.

I just don't like Nick Cave.

This is terrible and creepy. I still listened to the whole thing.... NOPE!

fuck all the way off

Ahh Nick Cave. An early pariah in this endeavour as he produced what I believe was my first 1-star review. I will NOT check. His bombastic Elvis impersonation stretched over 90 minutes did not make for a pleasant experience sometime last year. There was the more forgettable murder ballads record as well. Looking back, I stand by my disdain for the records, but I will say, I love “Fable of the Brown Ape.” That shit rips and it’s probably worth the full 1 star I gave Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus. Alas, I’m hoping this is a more mellow Nick Cave with a nod to songwriting and lyricism rather than Vegas stage shows with hack poetic tendencies. I hold no place in my life for performative male Elvis impersonators from the USA of Oceania. With that horrible, biased opener out of the way, it’s time to blast the foghorn in anticipation of the boatman’s call. Or the Coatman’s Ball. Why are you gagging so, he brings you your coat every time you hand him the coat check ticket. Into My Arms - Holy man. This is pretty fucking stinky. Nick Cave, the irredeemable “artiste” composes a boring piano riff to deliver substandard poetry over and I’m in store for about 48 (minutes) to life. Lime Tree Arbour - Slight interest piqued. Nah, this is Leonard Cohen with a brain injury. People Ain’t No Good - I think this was in The Simpsons. Or something like that. This is a fine enough song. Like I would probably tune this out effectively if I were at a bar or something. At least for the first few minutes. Too long! Boooo! Brampton Oratory - Two twos crodie fam. My word fam. Oh I thought this said “Brampton Oratory.” There is a Kingdom - The gardens of Mesopotamia dance with the life of a thousand planted seeds. Not a one planted by the king, yet all turn to the sunlight of his rule. Nourishing to those who can synthesize it, scorching death for those who fall under its radiant scrutiny. Speaking of scrutiny! This song sucks the big brown ape’s weird fuzzy nuts. (Are You) the One I’ve Been Waiting for - Imagine the guy who imagines his love life to this kind of music. The type of guy who criticizes his girlfriend for reading a copy of People magazine in a waiting room. Or maybe the kind of guy that criticizes his girlfriend for getting McDonalds when there are no other options available. A real winner. The keeper type of guy. Where Do We Go But Nowhere - There are people who are attracted this man in a carnal fashion. There’s hope for anybody. Although there is a demographic who are easily swayed by bad poetry. Alright, I audibly heaved when he said that him and his victim uhh I mean partner “fucked up the sun and fucked it down again.” That’s not even a cogent metaphor. West Country Girl - I don’t wanna go to school today. No I won’t get up. Black Hair - Wow, cool song about some poor woman’s hair. What terrible decisions she makes. Idiot Prayer - Please, whichever deity is on the clock, strike down this music. I’m hoping it’s one of the vengeful evil deities people worship for some reason. Good chance it will be as I’m pretty sure that’s all of them. Far From Me - What is where I want this album? No im sorry, it is where is a Nick Cave legally allowed to be from the perspective of his most recent partner. Green Eyes - The background vocals sound like that Bo Daddy Harris guy from instagram. Whoa he said a swear!!! Get this guy a record deal. Oh wait, they did already. Best song on the record and it’s because it’s the only attempt to do something that is in any way interesting and different. Too bad the execution reminds me of a botched execution. I am squirming against the straps of the execution floor’s gurney. Please end this. Nick is the most insufferable front man in music history. No! It’s Bono, but we’re in the same rarified air. This depresses me in a way I didn’t think was possible. I don’t think making depressing music is the artistic benchmark it’s seen as, considering people with real mental health issues don’t actually want to have them (crazy right??). It’s not an aesthetic. It’s not artistic. It usually just means sleeping for 48 hours and eating saltines right out of the sleeve. Not even Prozac could touch this record. It’s earnestly recorded as an artistic statement and fails in every possible way. Music for guys who are writing screenplays in which they are irresistible to several women. Coming to a gentrified café near you. Cover your 7 dollar coffees, ladies. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: *BIG FOGHORN NOISE*

No.

I was all set to give this a generous 2 but then Green Eyes came on. And I gotta say, that may have been one of the worst songs I've listened to for this entire project.

Too dark and doomed for my taste.

Old school country vibe, he/ they might be country. Not bad, but not my jam

So this is where that Shrek song is from! I played this album twice, from start to finish, and fell asleep both times. Not sure if that means this is a 1/5 or 5/5. I already knew Nick Cave though and he has far better stuff in other albums so I'll have to go with 1. Great find though if I need to fall asleep.

Did not finish. It was dreary, boring and piano heavy. It's a shame because I liked the last album of his I did. But, this stunk. A friend was doing the dishes while listening and these are her comments: That song only has one lyrics on repeat! Every song is worse than the last! Boo! Hiss! (Okay, that was me). Dan, this really sucks! No stars. I mean, 1 star.

This guy is the villain of 1001 Albums Generator, so funny that I got him within the first week or so. Michael hated this dudes two hour LP. Thank God this isn't it. "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere" was awful. Such a droning, aimless, sauntering drag. A lot of these were like that. That being said, it's not that bad. I'm giving him a mid. It's music and he has a good voice but God is it BORING. Do anything with that voice, man. This is one of two things I find objectionable in art: bad and boring. A moron once told me "There's no such thing as bad music," which isn't true, but I appreciate the sentiment. This isn't bad music, it's just a snoozefest. Just finished it. Mid as hell. Fuck it, it's a 1.

Just so boring. And what the fuck is up with the lyrics? The adoration is all surface level so that it comes off a bit creepy.

Nick Cave and The Bad Songs

Bro empezo de abajo y ahí se quedó

Sounds like if Nick Cave wrote a Leonard Cohen album.

Dire, depressing, dirge-like music that went on far too long. I had a moment when I felt the album must be near the end, only to find there was still over twenty minutes left, and wondered if I would make it there. The last song is probably one of the most awful things I've ever heard. One star.

Tenía un review pensado y todo se fue a la mierda en la última canción. Nunca una canción me había dado un cringe tan grande que hiciera que se me revolviera la guata, el tipo tratando de llegar a las notas un poco más altas como sufriendo, el locutor a lo rojo fama contrafama repitiendo la letra de la canción en algunas partes. Hay un círculo del infierno donde tienen esta canción en repeat.

Temu Leonard Cohen* *Talent and insight not included.

Strongly dislike, DNF. Sounds like church music.

Mopiest man on earth

No

Boring.

Complete trash. Shit from a butt. Almost puked at some point. Hate his voice. Stupid recommendation. Needed to listen to ben folds as a palate cleanser after this

Still don’t get the fascination with this fella. Singing voice: below average. Lyrics: not cleaver, nor powerful. Musical Composition: simple and slow. Somebody help me understand! If he wasn’t taking himself so damn serious, he’d be having a good chuckle at all the adoration. Deep down, you all know he sucks.

CHEGA tortura psicológica não é entretenimento!!!!!!!!

another connection to the punk scene that i don't really care for. this might be a 1/5 because of how aware of this artist i am, how much i know they have an impact on the scene, but i just can't get into it.

Liking this is equivalent to liking that one Oscar movie that critics loved but it’s just boring as hell.

Oh joy, more of this twat waffle

If David Bowie was boring and sang a lot of about God. Only got halfway through it before I was bored out of my mind. 1/5

Meh

Give it a rest, buddy.

I haven’t found an instance where lyrics are so phenomenal that the way they could be sang like shit and it wouldn’t matter. Cohen, Waits, and Cave are one and the same to me and I don’t like it.

He's unbearable.

I DONT LIKE NICK CAVE

I guess I just dislike Nick Cave. His voice sucks, and the songs are slow and boring funeral dirges. Sorry. Not impressed. 1/5

very difficult to make it through this slow, plodding funeral dirge. it is obviously subjective but to me this is barely music. just torture

HONK SHOO

Listened to this in 3 D. Dreary depressing dross

That was really boring. Usually, I need to be drunk before I hear people talking about their breakups. This album is just way too self loathing.

Edgy, I don't like the voice, I don't like the lyrics, the music is forgettable to me.

I did not like his voice unfortunately

This album was difficult to endure and it really dragged on. His voice affect (especially noticeable on "Green Eyes") is really deranged, he's putting it on like a bad drama kid and I don't believe this tone deaf man at all. "Black Hair" creeped me out, please stop talking about the smell on your hands, I'm pretty over Nick Cave. The boatman goes down with the ship (boat). 0.85 because it "Ain't No Good."

I did feel like I was on a old boat, heading down a dark and swampy river with the oarsman wearily singing these ballads. Did not like the direction Nick took on this alum compared to his other list spots. Surprised this even made it. I have liked some other slow, somber albums that have appeared but this one didn't land with me...1.1.

Was pleased to see Nick Cave on the list again as his prior entries have been pretty good for an artist I was previously unfamiliar with. He had proven to be a competent songwriter with some pretty varied rock roots with a band that dabbled in other genres. Unfortunately The Boatman's Call swayed way way too far from what I previously appreciated. I have a pretty wide range so I tried to keep an open mind. Maybe this would be a fresh look at something new and different from Nick Cave? Nope. Instead we got a painfully slow acoustic album with a couple really somber segments. This album dragged from song 1 all the way through. I tried to hold on and keep an open mind but it was pretty insufferable by the end of it. I couldn't wait for this to finish and don't ever want to hear this again. This was like taking all the worst parts of a bad Bruce Springsteen's acoustic albums and making it drag even more. Overall a painful listen. I get that this could be a critical darling forbringing something different from Nick Cave but this was a surprisingly huge miss for me. 1.04 stars

Hard No

Depressing monotone music. I couldn't wait to get this album over with.

Ooof dude. Seems like you’re not ok. I feel for you but don’t know if we needed 6 minutes of People ain’t no Good. When the last song, Green Eyes, finally came, I laughed out loud at the dubbed echoing of himself. As if I hadn’t gotten the point yet…

On the river Styks and the man is Charon I can believe it because this album makes me want to cuddle a toaster in a bathtub.

Kein vibe, 0

Ok

Boring and repetitive. Cave endeavors to be more boring than Leonard Cohen

shite

Music to listen to while making dinner - specifically, dinner for one after a nasty breakup.

Dull

"If Tom Waits sang Leonard Cohen songs." So two of my least favourite on this project sung a third member of the there's too many albums by these shit artists on this list club.

Nick Cave's music never speaks to me. I find his singing annoying, the lyrics trite, and the arrangements and instrumental selections boring, no more matter which genre he approaches. While he may have been experiencing true pathos after the collapse of his relationship with PJ Harvey, this comes off as a terrible inauthentic artifice of hymns and blues. This god and drug addict expels no heartbroken true wisdom on this album. Here is a secret that not many seem to have caught on to: Nick Cave is a not a particularly gifted lyricist. How he has managed to fool so many for so long is baffling.

This is the guy who sings the song Harry and Hermione dance to in Deathly Hollows?

I don't think this one was worth my time.

Did Nick Cave write this book?

I just can’t get into Nick Cave - his voice grates and he seems like the most miserable man on the planet. This album especially - I had to split up the listen over an entire day to get through it without wanting to drink bleach.

Another fucking Nick Cave album? No fucking thanks!

Trolling me now

I don’t like albums like this. Cave’s voice grinds my gears. I find the lyrics quite cringeworthy. Green eyes was particularly bad.

I was like that kombucha meme girl. "No. ..weellllll, maybe? ... No. No." I feel like maybe there was potential here, but too many things were not working. Felt a bit like depressing gospel music.

Hard Pass

Well-produced music with some of the most dogshit lyrics imaginable, sung by a shithead who's simply too hard to stomach. Like Morrissey without the wit, in the bin.

Really?

if i could give this 1.5 stars i would. i didn’t dislike this album really i just thought it … wasn’t … interesting … at all. i liked maybe one song? but as an album…its really not doing much

I couldn’t stand this man’s voice, and since this was a paired down album, that’s very unfortunate.

- Definitely not feeling this; largely an excessively lugubrious, tedious dirge. - "West Country Girl" seems to have the correct style for Cave's voice; this feels like it all should be closer to Johnny Cash than to Rufus Wainwright. - I actively do not like multiple songs here, including "Lime Tree Arbour," "There Is a Kingdom," and "Green Eyes." A real chore overall.

C’est vraiment la semaine des albums péniblement vaseux à écouter. Là on a droit à un wannabe Leonard Cohen emo tout droit kicked out de la troupe de théâtre du secondaire parce qu’il rajoute à ses lignes des tournures de phrases edgy et faussement profonde juste pour tenter d’impressionner ses compères, les rendant malaisé en sa présence. Bref, ça pue du cul, 1 étoile parce que jsuis tanné

DNF. Fand den ersten Song langweilig und der zweite klang genauso wie der Erste.

Oh great, another Nick Cave album. Surely this one won't be boring, pretentious crap. Just yelled "Oh, shut the fuck up, already" during Black Hair. Things are going great. Welp...it was boring, pretentious crap.

Really was not a fan of his voice, it was all very boring and sounded the same

Wow. Absolutely nothing redeeming.

I SWEAR TO GOD IF I GET ONE MORE NICK CAVE LABUM ON HERE. PLEASE, MAKE IT STOP

Stop saying "black hair". Oh my god! The rest of this is no better.

Tone deaf AF. Just the same drolling over and over with minimal music behind it. I finally gave up and moved on to something worth listening to.

This really wasn't worth listening to. I was going to give it a 2 because there were parts of it that were listenable as background noise, but then Green Eyes came on and it dropped it down to a solid 1 again.

I was teetering towards a 2 because there were a couple of songs that I didn’t mind, and the rest of the albums biggest crime is that it’s just a bit slow and samey. But Green Eyes really took away any good will I had toward those tracks. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to let Cave record that?

Also wenn der Bootsmann so ruft... laufe ich im Piano-Nebel auf Grund.

Chatão, todas as músicas soam igual

Blah

Can't do it

I know people love Nick, but it just isn't for me. Maybe its the time of day. I should listen again at night.

Nothing for me here.

Not great. Need more eclectic sound. can't always be white boy rock and roll.

Depression

Nobody wants to hear how miserable you are Nick, piss off. Hovered around a 2,but Green Eyes tanked it.

Did not love this. First time listening to Nick Cave. Glad this is a departure from his usual stuff, I’ll check out his other work.

Kinda fun but not for me. Sort of an Everlast meets Sublime meets Cypress Hill.

No no kehueva

Not a fan. Sad album with sad, almost spoken lyrics. Not enjoyable

Terrible I lasted 10 seconds into the second song. Time I will never get back.

Fuck this guy sucks

it was depressing but not in the way i like it to be

Very boring, every song sounded the same. His voice is nice, but not the songs he sang.

At least this album wasn’t about murder.

Little to slow and samey for me

Leiernder gothic Rock.

Terrible, TERRIBLE lyrics. Sad. Boring. Weird. Possibly worst album ever.

the music itself in this album wasn't terrible, but the lyrics were terrible. this seems like it would be good for a single track as part of a soundrack on an old western movie, but a full album like this is way too much.

God this was depressing

Absolutely not my thing

👩🔫

I really don't get this guy at all. The first song was alright but couldn't enjoy anything else. Like his other murder album, lots of the lyrics were very odd, to the point where I'm not sure if he means it seriously, could be satire and he's just very dedicated to the bit. Black hair in particular: Of her beautiful black hair As deep as ink and black, Black as the deepest sea The smell of her black hair Upon my pillow Where her head and all its Black hair did rest. Is straight out of a Garth marenghi opening monologue. Don't particularly like the crooner singing so I'm probably letting that colour my judgement, but safe to say I'm not a Nick Cave fan.

Reminded me a lot of Leonard Cohen, who I don’t particularly like. And that last song, woof

I'm so tired of Nick Cave in this list. Fingers-crossed this is the last album I need to endure.

Get this guy some Prozac.

Really didn't like this album. Just felt a bit bored throughout.

absolute. garbage. again.

Ik ken Nick Cave van een iets meer up-tempo nummer. Dit album vind ik eerlijk gezegd erg slaapvewekkend. De stem van Nick begint ook erg te irriteren na verloop van tijd. *

basta por el amor de dios que música de viejo hermano. 3 / 10

There are at least a dozen guys outside at least a dozen subway stations in at least a dozen cities that sound just like this. In many cases at least a dozen times better. I give Nick Cave a single dollar in his upturned hat and move on. 💸

OMG I can’t with this guy. The schmaltz in the lyrics and his dramatic singing and the oh-so-same-sounding melody. I am not at all opposed to ballads or piano-heavy soft rock or whatever you want to call it but this is just. Blech. The Kenny G of whatever the genre is.

"West Country Girl" and one of the other songs after that almost saved "The Boatman's Call" from the 1-star cellar, but "Green Eyes" sealed the deal.

This was not good. It was going to be a two but good God that one song about the woman’s hair. WE GET IT IT’S BLACK.

oh my god no why help bye

I would rather have sat in silence for an hour. you can't shoot me. I'm already dead. biggest nope from me. dreadfully laconic, plodding, depressing, uninspiring. And I've already had far too much Leonard Cohen. 2/10 1 star.

Cba

1/10

nope

On dirait une pâle copie de Tom Waits, avec du mauvais piano. Les textes sont tout de même intéressants, mais le rendu en baryton est forcé ce qui fait que ça sort un peu fake. Aussi, on flirt avec le Quétaine souvent. Bref, ça ne va pas là.

Bastante malón. 1 rola buena. Muy aburrido.

Too depressing, would rather words that uplift and motivate. Definitely knows how to play the piano 🎹

Dull dull and dull

Plodding, dull and dreary

Didn't enjoy

Every now and then the generator throws up an album that you’ve never heard and is different from the others. It’s a slog, it feels like time has slowed down and makes you rethink why you even started this 1,001 album project. 1/5

Dull

Maybe at a different phase in my life I would have appreciated this more? But honestly don’t care for his voice, don’t like the music.

Esse álbum parece uma segunda feira com 9h de reunião e muitos prazos perdidos no trabalho. Dei 1, porque não deixou eu dar 0.

Didn’t find much interest in this album. The singers voice is ok but he makes every song seem slightly depressing. The album felt long and it nothing really stood out. 3.2/10

This album is awful. The vocals are terrible. The lyrics are juvenile. The arrangements are boring. I'm stunned that this sold one copy. The confusion is real.

not it

Not a fan of this. Just to slow to get into

This is not the Nick Cave i was looking for. completely skippable

This has been one of the most difficult albums to get through so far which is never a good sign. I had never heard of Nick Cave or his band before listening to this record, and I am not exactly sure why this is deserving of its place on this list after getting through the whole thing. I thought the vocals, instrumentation, and lyrics were all mediocre at best. If I had to guess after my one and only listen, I would say this was most likely a punk/post punk artist that attempted to "branch out" by making a mature album after years of sticking to his unique formula; however, it felt mature in the worst possible way in that it was slow, boring, and lacking in substance. I could definitely hear some Lou Reed influence in here (not that I listen to him much) and surprisingly some Johnny Cash as well, but it didn't attempt to stand out as much as those artists do. The one time I feel it tried to do something different was on the song Green Eyes, but I thought that track was cringeworthy and a terrible way to end off the album. While I have been mostly negative, I will say that I did find a bright spot towards the end of the album with Idiot Prayer. I wasn't a fan of it enough to add it to my Starred list or anything, but I felt the strings and organ added some depth that the rest of the album was missing. Overall, this one ends up towards the bottom of my list. 1.5/5.

Boring, massively overrated

This is a great album to listen to if you suffer from insomnia. 2/10.

Mostly all slow songs that are bland to listen to. His voice is not very pleasant to listen to. Instrumentation is nice on some songs but homie’s voice hurts more than the instruments help. Bonus point for “This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt“ 1.6/5

First impression: way too dramatic for me. There is also something about the combination of his voice, the music, and the lyrics that makes it feel quite contrived and pretentious. After about the 5th song I started forwarding through songs if I didn't like them halfway through. I forwarded through all but West Country Girl (but I was distracted during that one). Black Hair has huge "men writing women" vibes and sealed the 1 star for me. First album on this list that I actively disliked listening to.

shouldn't've come back for it, trash

Bummertown, USA. I love depressing music but this was intolerable sludge.

Not for me. Not even close.

Pretty boring.

Kinda cringe. As much as i like his earlier post punk shit i rly cant get behind the sadboi singer-songwriter era. That said i wish this site had half stars so giving it a 1 wouldnt look as bad

This blended so quickly and so entirely into the background as I listened while working.

The lyrics were trash, the piano was trash, and his voice was trash. Hated it.

Trash, "music pour faire dodo"

Kolejny raz horyzonty muzyczne zostały poszerzone, bo jest to druga australijska banda jaka slyszalem, ale nie jestem jakos specjalnie zadowolony z tego odsluchu, wymeczone 50 minut, aranzacje w ultra wolnym tempie, w stylu minimalistycznym, brak jakiegokolwiek jakosciowego wokalu, instumentalem glownym sa klawisze i smyczki, ultra doomerska liryka, zawodzenie o tym jaka to milosc, zycie, ludzie sa niedobrzy, naprawde ciezki material do odsluchania, trzeba z odpowiednim mindsetem do niego podejsc, jedynym kawalkiem ktory wrzuce na plejke to lime tree arbour

Bleh

Very slow and somber. Sad. Religious. Cross between Johnny Cash and... someone I can't remember. It doesn't sound bad, it just isn't for me.

WTF? Nick Cave is great at something, and that is making fun murder ballads and looking mysterious with a full band. He is very bad at being emo and introspective. This is easily his worst album.

Nope, not today. Maybe not ever. Not exactly sure why, but there's nothing about this album that I like right now -- voice is meh, music is yawn, and lyrics are wat. 1 star.

I was gonna give it 2☆ until I heard black hair. Fuck that song, fuck this album. Every song drags on and on. Idk if its just an album of death and mourning, but it sucks

Not a fan