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Tom Waits: Alice; Blood Money

Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, May 2002

NOT A DOUBLE but two individual albums, released at the same time. Your choice. There's Alice, skewed and drowsy, with wonky percussion and soft, smudged, narcotic strings. Or there's Blood Money, brutal, nihilistic, dark and visceral.

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