Alexis Petridis: 'Ghosteen' - the most beautiful set of songs that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have ever recorded

Guardian's music critic totally likes the new Cave&Seeds album: "The most straightforwardly beautiful set of songs that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have ever recorded". In comparison, "Ghosteen occasionally feels like an infinitely warmer, sweeter sibling of 2016’s 'Skeleton Tree'", and Cave, getting older, of course, but his voice "sounds rich". The album is composed of two parts - part one is children, part two is parents - "The long songs on album two seem darker in tone, filled with sleepless nights, departures and desperate fantasies of escape. The songs on album one sound like the result of working through those emotions: lighter, calmer, concerned with empathy and faith". Listen to the album in full below.