David Betancourt

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

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December 13, 2018 at 2:43 p.m.

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June 5, 2018 at 7:17 p.m.

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June 5, 2018 at 11:33 p.m.

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June 6, 2018 at 8:20 a.m.

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June 10, 2018 at 2:06 p.m.

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June 12, 2018 at 3:24 a.m.

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June 12, 2018 at 6:50 a.m.

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June 11, 2018 at 5:39 a.m.

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