I feel like I've been posting a lot of Tom Waits lately, but the recent Throwback was done before I even realized he had a new record on the horizon. I wasn't entirely sold on the first new single, "Bad As Me", but "Back in the Crowd" eschews the labored quirkiness of that song for a more straight forward, Spanish-inflected ballad sound. It's a little brief at 2:50 but the two singles combine to reassure that Bad as Me, the album, will be the diverse collection we're used to expecting out of Waits. If one song isn't your bag, the next one probably will be... and as a whole the man tends to bat well over .500.
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