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Bad as Me is Tom Waits' first collection of new material in seven years. He and Kathleen Brennan - wife, co-songwriter, and production partner - have, at the latter's insistence, come up with a tight-knit collection of short tunes, the longest is just over four minutes. This is a quick, insistent, and woolly aural road trip full of compelling stops and starts. While he's kept his sonic experimentation - especially with percussion tracks - Waits has returned to blues, rockabilly, rhythm & blues, and jazz as source material. Instead of sprawl and squall, we get chug and choogle. For "Chicago" - via Clint Maedgen's saxes, Keith Richards' (who appears sporadically here) and Marc Ribot's guitars, son Casey Waits' drums, dad's banjo, percussion and piano, and Charlie Musselwhite's harmonica (he appears numerous times here, too) - we get a 21st century take on vintage R&B…

Un jour de juin, en pleine canicule, un groupe de proches arrive à Lumen, un centre de bien-être luxueux situé sur une île surnommée le rocher de la Faucheuse. Tous n'aspirent qu'à se détendre mais un corps est retrouvé en contrebas du pavillon de yoga. L'inspectrice Elin Warner est chargée de l'enquête. Bientôt, le cadavre d'un autre invité est découvert dans un endroit sinistre. …