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Tom Waits: Real Gone (Remixed/Remastered)

Andy Gill, The Independent, 13 December 2017

IN A WORLD WHERE everything from Sgt Pepper to What's Going On? is considered fair game for remix "upgrading", it's only slightly surprising — given his nose is generally sniffing the future rather than the past — to find Tom Waits offering this revised version of his rasping, clanky collection of "cubist funk" Real Gone, which was already pretty perfect to begin with.

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