Tom Waits, Alice

Tom Waits' Alice is an example of the wonderful, abstract quality that we have come to expect from the most recent additions to the Waits catalogue. If your wife, or husband as it were, can't get beyond "Heart of Saturday Night", then this album will be one to be played when you're alone, which is perfect as much of the music is a deeply personal study of characters from the play "Alice". With complex twists and a never ending play on words and imagery, this is not an album to put on for background music. For those who are afraid that this album may border on the "dismal", there are such wonderful heavy jazz tracks as "Kommienezuspadt".