Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

Hear me out: I love this album. Whatever homeboy was going through at the time, I guess I relate.

Very pleased with this pressing! This, and Ghosteen are so painfully beautiful. He's pouring his heart out in anguish. Bone-chilling. This pressing is dynamic, well balanced, and with fantastic projection.

The pressing I got is super clean. On record, the details of this album come out really good. Surface noise is almost non existent. Really happy with this record. The packaging is nice and high gloss. Also comes with download card.

How is it possible that my new 2M black cartridge can dig up so much gunk from the grooves of this factory sealed record?

Least loved of my Cave albums, in fact having listened to it today for the first time in ages decided to flog it.
More depressing than a Leonard Cohen album.

What a pivot. Skeleton Tree sees the bad seeds follow the course they chartered on the previous "Push the sky..." album. Both that album and this one mark a new chapter in the evolution of the bad seeds, which is complemented by the third album in this style series "Ghosteen". The gentle nature of these tracks, and their dark, tender, introspective content make for a thoroughly captivating listen. So sad. So beautiful.

Bought used at the record shop. Crackle, snap, pop noise throughout and a muted, muddy sound.

Then I cleaned it several times over. Ultrasonic, scrubbing with multi-step cleaner, vacuum machine, more ultrasonic.

And now it sounds great! Maybe that’s all this record needs for other folks: a deep long clean.

mine copy is not so good; a lot dirts, on last two tracks of side B...

I love the album, but this is the dirtiest record I've pulled out of a sealed copy.

Just played a third (!) copy of this album. All have too much background noise and pops. Especially side B almost unbearable to listen to with sibilance on vocals and strings especially on title track Skeleton Tree.

Tried everything, cleaning, skating, different deck. Such a shame for such an unbelievably beautiful song.

Playing from Rega P3 with Exact.