Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (2023 Remaster) (1983/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 179 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 MB
41:36 | Blues Rock, Lounge, Jazz-Rock | Label: Island Records
Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes." Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad – a world (not just a neighborhood) of misfits now have his attention.