Bone Machine

Tom Waits' voice makes this whole album sound like he's just rambling at you the entire time, and I love it. Something that aids this is Waits' style of storytelling and the brooding atmosphere thanks to the production, they both feel so ominous in completely different ways. The writing feels as it's describing the end of everything from different perspectives, or at least it carries that weight. The production feels so isolating, with it also feeling extremely familiar, it's like it's taken regular instruments, and ever so subtly warped them to create something almost hellish, and appropriate for the name "Bone Machine". That being said, I think the first half is stronger than the second half.