3 Stars - Good - "...mindful that he was getting stuck in a retro groove, Waits switched from piano to electric guitar for much of BLUE VALENTINE....years of nicotine and alcohol abuse were taking their toll nicely on his voice...", 5 stars out of 5 -- “These are songs torn from a ‘blind and broken heart’, from the tear-stained title track to the ill-fated tryst in ‘Red Shoes By The Drugstore’...”