{"product_id":"pre-order-tom-waits-swordfishtrombones-lp","title":"Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esongwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity. As he put it in a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1983 interview: “I tried to listen to the noise in my head and invent some junkyard orchestral deviation—a mutant apparatus to drive this noise into a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewreck collection.” It’s a Waits-arranged pastiche, a variety of atmospheres from different sound planets. There is the warped, marching-army-ants music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof “Underground,” an impressionist chant about people living below cities, but there was also the poignancy of the spare piano ballad, “Soldier’s Things,”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe good bar yarn, “Frank’s Wild Years”, the tender, minimalist paean to Waits’ wife and muse, Kathleen, “Johnsburg, Illinois,” and the raggedy anthem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto neighborhood chaos, “In the Neighborhood.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“On Swordfishtrombones, Waits has made a breakthrough – he’s found music as evocative as his words. Waits’s grumble of a voice now bounces off a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epeculiar assortment of horns and percussion and organ and keyboards, as if he’d led a Salvation Army band into a broken-down Hong Kong disco. It’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eas if he’s shifted from monologues to screenplays…” - Jon Parales January 1984 - GQ Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original EQ’ed ½” production master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealbum packaging has also been restored. Available on 180g black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e)(*02\u0026amp;*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UMG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59548220260433,"sku":"602448898425","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/5778\/3889\/files\/180276__07122023115027-6663.jpg?v=1779348712","url":"https:\/\/c09u90-kd.myshopify.com\/products\/pre-order-tom-waits-swordfishtrombones-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}