Where are the hearts bleeding out? Claret spilt across page and stage. What about the weirdos, the architects of strangeness and mysterious constructing something in the shed out back? We may never, ever fully comprehend what Tom Waits is building in there - that enigmatic brain of his - but that doesn't matter. Listening to the various bits and pieces of his eccentric masterplan is why we're really here.
 
Something deeply human is at risk of being lost in the 21st Century, trampled by the boot of algorithmic conformity. Here, then, is one of America's most curious songwriters and deep-throated vocalists to remind us it's not only OK to be different, it should be compulsory. Live on record is almost as good as in the flesh, spanning gravelly funk, surrealist blues, and Americana for (and from) the underworld.