Our good friends at Spinner asked the lovely Carina Round to pick and describe a song she "freakin' loves." She chose the title track from Tom Waits' 2000 album, Alice. Note a passage from her essay:
Waits' voice is pressed around your ears like your mother's heartbeat in the womb, and the instrumental arrangements trickle in and out subtly with a soft, understated genius like a sweet breeze on a hot, perfect sunny day. The muted trumpet melts like ice in the song over the warm, cracked voice that's wracked with age and loaded with the weight of all the world's love.
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