Artist: Tom Waits
Title: Bone Machine (2023 Remaster)
Year Of Release: 1992 [2023]
Label: Island Records
Genre: Rock
Quality: FLAC [Tracks, 24bit/192kHz]
Total Time: 00:53:28 min
Total Size: 2,1 Gb (+1%rec.)
Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, Bone Machine is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative – and often harrowing – effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body, Bone Machine is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly existence can be destroyed. The arrangements are accordingly stripped of all excess flesh; the very few, often non-traditional instruments float in distinct separation over the clanking junkyard percussion that dominates the record.
It's a chilling, primal sound made all the more otherworldly (or, perhaps, underworldly) by Waits' raspy falsetto and often-distorted roars and growls. Matching that evocative power is Waits' songwriting, which is arguably the most consistently focused it's ever been. Rich in strange and extraordinarily vivid imagery, many of Waits' tales and musings are spun against an imposing backdrop of apocalyptic natural fury, underlining the insignificance of his subjects and their universally impending doom. Death is seen as freedom for the spirit, an escape from the dread and suffering of life in this world – which he paints as hellishly bleak, full of murder, suicide, and corruption. The chugging, oddly bouncy beats of the more uptempo numbers make them even more disturbing – there's a detached nonchalance beneath the horrific visions. Even the narrator of the catchy, playful "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" seems hopeless in this context, but that song paves the way for the closer "That Feel," an ode to the endurance of the human soul (with ultimate survivor Keith Richards on harmony vocals). The more upbeat ending hardly dispels the cloud of doom hanging over the rest of Bone Machine, but it does give the listener a gentler escape from that terrifying sonic world. All of it adds up to Waits' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible.
Tracklist
01. The Earth Died Screaming (2023 Remaster)
02. Dirt In The Ground (2023 Remaster)
03. Such A Scream (2023 Remaster)
04. All Stripped Down (2023 Remaster)
05. Who Are You (2023 Remaster)
06. The Ocean Doesn't Want Me (2023 Remaster)
07. Jesus Gonna Be Here (2023 Remaster)
08. A Little Rain (2023 Remaster)
09. In The Colosseum (2023 Remaster)
10. Goin' Out West (2023 Remaster)
11. Murder In The Red Barn (2023 Remaster)
12. Black Wings (2023 Remaster)
13. Whistle Down The Wind (2023 Remaster)
14. I Don't Wanna Grow Up (2023 Remaster)
15. Let Me Get Up On It (2023 Remaster)
16. That Feel (2023 Remaster)
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