Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", "Muted, Often Desperately Unoptimistic Collection about Cave's Recent Relationships...", Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", Ranked #26 on Melody Maker's List of 1997's "Albums of the Year.", "Safe to Say Nobody Writes an Aching Love Ballad Quite like the Cadaverous Australian.", "With this set of sparse piano-based crooners, Cave has created, wittingly or not, a kindler, gentler companion to last year's gloomy, dyspeptic, brilliant MURDER BALLADS..." - Rating: B+, Ranked #23 in Nme's 1997 Critics' Poll., 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Over spare piano, he croons of love and pain, brooding over an old flame in 'West Country Girl.'", "...a quiet, piano-laden disc filled with ballads, and dirges, where Cave's voice throughout is stately and measured, never aggressive....a somberly mature record...", 5 stars out of 5 - "...A tortured break-up album to rival Dylan's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, and every bit as affecting...", Ranked #11 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "A Ballad-Based Beauty...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "The album saw The Bad Seeds bring their most masterful, hushed performances to bear on Cave's most sparse, naked, heart-rending lyrics..."
