Heard it before it was released through the advanced streaming program they were doing and loved every minute of it. Definitely going to have to pay for this one.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
It's also interesting to me that, after about a quarter century of progressively getting dirtier and dirtier sounding with each album, this one has the cleanest production since Swordfishtrombones. I was a little surprised by this but it actually sounds great.
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Interestingly, this is my only contention with the album. I love the dirty production of his albums, especially on
Mule Variations, and it's absence here takes the album from
Perfect to
Great. The production still has that signature post-Swordfishtrombones Waits album sound though, and the songwriting is incredibly strong. I half agree about the ballads, but I've always liked the ballads of his post-James Taylor clone days. The ones on
Mule Variations are his strongest, in my opinion.