What effect do you have on the vocal? Reverb? With the stronger parts of the vocal it pops out wide & contracts for the quieter bits.
I'm listening with h/phones so that's a bit disturbing - it's less worrying when the bvox inhabit the edges.
Cool song & delivery. Some of the hesitations in the guitar early on had me on edge but that's OK - you're not suppose to deliver my expectations - better to challenge them.
The slide is cool but sounds like it's in a different place & just dropped in - diff reverb?
Doesn't approach Waites, but that's not a bad thing - his vocals are really, really mannered & have become a caricature of him.