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| Released | September 1, 1983 | |||
| Recorded | August 1982 | |||
| Studio | Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Experimental rock[1] | |||
| Length | 41:41 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Tom Waits | |||
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Swordfishtrombones is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in 1983 on Island Records. It was the first album that Waits self-produced. Stylistically different from his previous albums, Swordfishtrombones moves away from conventional piano-based songwriting towards unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract and experimental rock approach.[2] The album peaked at No. 164 on the Billboard Pop Albums and 200 albums charts.
It is often considered the first in a loose trilogy that includes Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years. Per The Guardian, "These are records of startling originality and playfulness, of cacophonous discord and sudden heartbreaking melody, in which it seemed the artist was trying to incorporate the whole history of American song into his loose-limbed poetic storytelling."[3]
- ^ Editors of Rolling Stone (November 8, 2001). "Tom Waits". Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Touchstone. ISBN 9780743201209. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
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