Gabriel Ebulue & Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Skeleton Tree

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Gabriel Ebulue shares his love for Skeleton Tree, the ominous and emotional album steeped in Nick Cave's personal tragedy.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	If you like adult content and strong language, good news.
0:08.2	This podcast has plenty of it.
0:10.2	With any luck.
0:15.4	James Aicaster here, comedian and music fan.
0:18.6	And in 2017, I had a breakdown. I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much
0:23.6	music from 2016 as I possibly could as a result I now own over 600 albums that came out in
0:29.4	2016 and I'm convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time but it's not enough me being
0:34.9	convinced I also want to convince each and every single one of you and a guest every week.
0:39.3	I'm going to send them an album in advance.
0:41.3	They're going to come on the podcast and we're going to talk about that album.
0:44.3	This week, my guest is Gabriel Abulu, and the album I've chosen to send Gabriel is Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
0:52.3	You fell from the sky and crashed landed in a field near the river Ago.
1:02.0	Flowers sprang from the ground.
1:05.0	Lambs burst from the wounds of their mother.
1:08.0	Skeleton Tree is the 16th studio album by Nick Cave.
1:13.8	It topped a lot of end-of-year lists.
1:16.9	Still, people talk about it very highly to this day.
1:20.2	It's a really impactful album,
1:22.3	partly because of the ominous droning instrumentals on it,
1:26.8	the kind of free-form vocals over the top that goes in and out of time with the music.
1:33.3	Oh and oh you come shyly,
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