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しわがれ声の呑ンベエ・ソング・ライター(?),トム・ウェイツが83年に発表した8作目。47などジャジーな弾き語りはトムの看板だが,初のセルフ・プロデュースで,サウンド面でもドサ回りの芸人をモチーフにしたノスタルジックな展開を聴かせる。
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The first album of the loose trilogy that also includes
Rain Dogs and
Franks Wild Years,
Swordfishtrombones marked a radical departure for Waits, whose avant-garde ambitions became plain not so much in his lyrics or subject matter--the songs here deal, as do his older albums, with hard life on the wrong side of the tracks and dreams of escape and transcendence--but in the music, a sound somewhere between German cabaret music from between the wars and contemporary Manhattan rush hour. Odd time signatures, unusual instrumentation (glass harmonicas and brake drums, among others), and Waits's barked vocals make this one of his most individualistic and challenging albums.
--Daniel Durchholz
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