TOM WAITS - Closing Time 2LP post-rock ‘Riverside’ is a gently-picked ballad

‘Riverside’ is a gently-picked ballad in which Barry laments of a husband and wife holding tight their deceased infant child in the River Ganges

playing perhaps a dozen shows

the Laurels sound more like 24-hour party people: there’s a pronounced Madchester/baggy rhythmic influence

This is funk

and introducing Xylouris’ powerful vocals

TOM WAITS - Closing Time 2LP post-rock ‘Riverside’ is a gently-picked ballad50th anniversary limited edition. Double 180 gram vinyl. Half speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios, delivering fantastic results. Highly recommended. This is Tom Waits debut album. It is much more, shall we say, normal than his later crazy but brilliant albums. Straight forward songs, but what brilliant songs they are. You can picture him sitting at a piano in an empty bar singing his heart out to these. "Ol '55" was covered by the Eagles, make of