Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP Art School Girlfriend and bass come spiralling in

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

Funk and Gospel

popularising it around the world

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)

“I'm not as scared to admit my feelings”

Closing Time: Half-Speed 50th Anniversary Vinyl 2LP Art School Girlfriend and bass come spiralling inClosing 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