Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP Art School Girlfriend Funk and Gospel

Funk and Gospel

A rhythmic framework started to come together too: the structures of UK bass music and rave began to seep into beats that would become tracks like “Otomo” (eventually co-produced by O’Flynn and featuring a sample of the Bulgarian choir 100 Kaba-Gaidi)

he brought his band together in the English countryside

and bass come spiralling in to break things up for an ever-tightening crescendo

a Trojan horse of a pop record that dreamt of a revolution

Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP Art School Girlfriend Funk and GospelClosing 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