Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP SPRINGOFFER30 Setting the course for a

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homemade percussion instruments and electronic percussion over flow here with extra weirdness

giving the album a generally glossier sound than its predecessor

“20th Century Boy” returned to the UK Top 20 in August 1991

Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP SPRINGOFFER30 Setting the course for aClosing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career Ol 55 (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking Martha and the gentle acoustic folk of I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You. Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary