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"Waits is still writing terrific songs and matching them with wildly evocative productions; furthermore, it's his lightest record in years -- it's actually fun to listen to, even with a murder ballad here and a psycho blues there. In that sense, it's a unique item in his post-Swordfish catalog, and that may make up for it not being the masterpiece it seemed like it could have been".

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"His late-90's diversion onto the beaten track ... Coming between the industrial horrorsongs of his early-'90s output and the human-beatbox blues of what followed, his 12th studio album, released in 1999, contained some of his most straightforward songs".