Tom Waits - Blood Money - LP meta-done What a World

What a World

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Translucent red vinyl

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cascading guitars beneath Fraser's largely wordless vocals — an early archetype of ethereal wave

Tom Waits - Blood Money - LP meta-done What a WorldVinyl LP Released alongside Alice in 2002, Blood Money grew out of Tom Waits' collaboration with director Robert Wilson on a stage production of Georg Bchner's unfinished 1837 play Woyzeck. Written with Kathleen Brennan, it's a dark, carnivalesque morality play that swings between the romantic and the grotesque a medicine show barker somehow stranded in the Weimar Republic by way of Tin Pan Alley. Disturbing, delirious, hilarious and tender by turns,