T Bone Burnett's recently released Tooth of Crime earns 3.5 out of 4 stars in the Boston Phoenix, which calls the album "a sonic adventure thanks to Burnett's current signatures: booming drum kits sans cymbals, knotty guitars, lyrics sung through amplifiers, and an open, airy quality that's the antithesis of modern rock production."
T Bone Burnett's recently released Tooth of Crime earns 3.5 out of 4 stars in the Boston Phoenix, with reviewer Ted Drozdowksi calling the album "a sonic adventure thanks to Burnett's current signatures: booming drum kits sans cymbals, knotty guitars, lyrics sung through amplifiers, and an open, airy quality that's the antithesis of modern rock production."
Drozdowski refers to "the gentility of Burnett's Beatles-like tenor vocal performance in the love ode 'Kill Zone'" and ultimately sums up Tooth of Crime this way: "Somehow it all boils down to the cornerstones of sin and salvation, which resonate in the roiling closer, 'Sweet Lullaby,' Burnett's slide 'n' rumble extrapolation of hill-country blues."
To read the full review, visit thephoenix.com.
