
#21 (1983 Part 1) Pink Floyd, Yes, New Order, Tom Waits & more
The Album Years
Tom White's Sword Fish Trombone
Tom White's would call this album sword fish trombone seems like a very deliberate nod to me and it's an interesting album since that. The island was you know was a British label he suddenly found himself on a British label having been on an American label for most of the previous 10 years. It does have a slightly more European sensibility I was going to say it is this sound designYou've got quite a lot of dissonance guitar you've got as we said this almost kind of trash can drumming but what then works is on pieces like rainbirds you have tuned glass and it's exquisiteYeah he's looking for he's definitely looking for a new musical vocabulary on this record isn
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