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Alice

Tom Waits

SKU: 266323

Barcode: 8714092663235

20.00 £20.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Anti
  • Released Date: 24th November 2017
  • Buying Format:
    180g 2LP Includes Download Code

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Alice is one of the most distinctive of all Waits’ creations, occupying its own corner in the odd-angled room that is Tom Waits’ body of work and while there are the familiar parts–the redoubtable ragged voice, jazz ballads and poignant musings on death and longing–the whole is strange and exotic.

A devastatingly beautiful atmosphere made of sorrow and reverie, insanity and resignation, rises like a mist in Alice. It’s a lyrical melancholia, a feeling that creeps in on the arms of Stroh violins and unabashed poetry. These are songs to fall into, and sometimes, to keep falling. There are fragile, haunted musings, and laments, mad ruminations, and tales of unrequited love and anthems from beyond the grave.

‘Alice’ is the eighteenth studio album from Tom Waits, and follows on from 1999’s ‘Mule Variations’. Originally written in 1992 for an opera which was based loosely on Lewis Carroll’s obsession with the girl who inspired ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Working with long term collaborator Kathleen Brennan, it fuses the familiar sound of Tom Waits, melancholic jazz and piano bar blues, with an avant-garde orchestra, which sets this album apart from his previous work.

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Track Listings

1. Alice
2. Everything You Can Drink
3. Flowers Grave
4. No One Knows I'm Gone
5. Kommienezuspadt
6. Poor Edward
7. Table Top Joe
8. Lost In The Harbour
9. We're All Mad Here
10. Watch Her Disappear
11. Reeperbahn
12. I'm Still Here
13. Fish And Bird
14. Bacarolle
15. Fawn

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