Overrated?

>The Bad Seeds
>Without Blixa

no thanks.

the 'his son died' narrative is important, as it directly influenced the recording and production of the album. To deny this would be equivalent to denying that Bowie's impending death influenced the recording of Blackstar.

what has that got to do with anything xDxDxDxD

you're acting as if external factors tdon't affect the way we perceive art, don't be such a dumbo

>lyrics
Lyrics aren't a requirement of good music. Having good lyrics around meh music doesn't make it good music, it's just good poetry under meh music.

>If you think the instrumentals being "sparse and repetitive" is a negative aspect then I would suggest you don't understand or appreciate drone music.
Nah I love that type of stuff; I have gone so far as to vehemently defend the tracks on elseq 2 and 3 on Autechre's latest which have been lambasted by others for entailing long 20 minute tracks that just do the same thing over and over again. The key with music that tends to be surface level repetitive though is that the real change is happening at a micro level rather than a macro level. Most of the tracks on this album don't have a lot happening on either level.

>the 'his son died' narrative is important, as it directly influenced the recording and production of the album
No it didn't. By the time Arthur died, the music itself was already done on for Skeleton Tree, and the rest of the time was spent on production stuff like overdubbing/mixing/mastering. Might wanna do some research on this album that you claim to enjoy so much.

>you're acting as if external factors tdon't affect the way we perceive art, don't be such a dumbo
Does that make it right though? We are using non-musical determinants to determine the quality of music. Look at the amount of false praise ANOHNI has gotten for Hopelessness. The themes covered on the album are for sure important, but the music even the lyrics range from mediocre to awful. Beyonce's Lemonade doesn't have an original creative thought put into it, but because of the agenda run behind it, not the music itself (which is ultimately a lot of generic DJ Mustard type stuff with MBDTF Kanye maximal production sprinkled in) that is giving it so much love.

i would say that it's underrated here, but then I realized that most of the people here are teenage hip-hop kids anyways

My bad, forgot to put you in this post>RAP
>Retards Attempting Poetry
Anti hip hop meme stuff like the above gets posted here all the tie wtf are you on about?

God I suck at this.

look at it this way, there are certain albums you'll only appreciate fully when you're in a certain mood. i mean, this'll probably get a lot of hate, especially here, but this just shows how subjective music taste is, when even relatively minor factors in your life can affect how you appreciate it.

Everything sounds much shittier when stripped of its context.