Tom Waits is back!!!!<\/p>\n
How in the world do you review Tom Waits? You can\u2019t compare him to anything. You can\u2019t predict what the album may sound like because he lays low and doesn\u2019t tour. So saying that, this album sounds like exactly like Tom Waits. There is growling. There are love songs. There is abrasiveness. There is beauty. But, mainly, there is music that is unmatched by anyone in the past 30 years. In his first true album since 2004, Waits surprises without surprising, which is something he has mastered and you can really only know if you are into Tom Waits. If you are not familiar with Tom Waits, a review won\u2019t do anything (and you better become familiar!). Jay Leno once wrote something that stated it\u2019s impossible to describe a Far Side (if you\u2019re not into Far Side you should be!) comic without sounding like an idiot and completely diluting the importance and brilliance of the comic. It\u2019s exactly the same with Tom Waits. You can\u2019t understand Tom Waits without experiencing Tom Waits. Play this album because this is the music that college radio gravitates around!<\/p>\n
Reviewed by:<\/strong> A happy Zachary Graham on October 27th, 2011<\/p>\n Recommended Tracks:<\/strong> All! Upbeat songs: 1!, 2!, 4, 8. Slow songs: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9!, 11, 13<\/p>\n FCC Warning:<\/strong> 10, 12<\/p>\n Label:<\/strong> Anti-<\/p>\n Release Date:<\/strong> October 25th, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Waits is back!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3230,181],"tags":[402,379],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-tom-waits","tag-zachary-graham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/51zn8NRlZ4L._SL500_AA280_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}