Ghosteen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 2019, 1:08
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
This is the album born out of Nick Cave's grief at losing his son in a terrible accident. This is the album in which he is saying that his son is here next to him, not in his heart, but with him. It's a gorgeous work of art. It's also terribly abstruse and poetic and personal and ethereal and insular. It just is, this album; it doesn't ask for your approval or your understanding. I think that you can no more quantify or criticize this album than you could a dream. Favorite tracks: "Bright Horses," "Sun Forest." It's difficult to take them out of context, however.
