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Alice
Rock · 1999 · 28 tracks

Alice

Tom Waits

A Victorian fever dream of smoky jazz ballads and chamber waltzes. Recorded without guitars, it trades his usual junk-shop clatter for a haunting, orchestral ache.

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It sounds like a haunted Victorian music box found in the basement of a jazz club.

A fragile, Victorian-tinged romanticism that feels both deeply intimate and hauntingly distant.

Alice · vs · Tom Waits
Low Energy-1.4σ

It runs notably cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

Tracklist · 28 Tracks
01
There's Only Alice
4:06
02
Interlude 1
2:34
03
And No One Knows I'm Gone
2:05
04
Interlude 2
3:24
05
Table Top Joe
3:17
06
Interlude 3
2:43
07
Kommie Nie Zu Spät
3:06
08
Interlude 4
0:48
09
Hang Me in the Bottle
2:36
10
Interlude 5
2:26
11
Down the Reeperbahn
3:00
12
Interlude 6
4:41
13
One, Two and Through
3:32
14
Interlude 7
3:20
15
Everything You Can Think of Is True
2:58
16
Interlude 8
1:38
17
... But There's Never a Rose
3:46
18
Interlude 9
2:22
19
What Became of Old Father Craft
6:07
20
Interlude 10
2:55
21
Chained Together for Life
3:31
22
Interlude 11
4:17
23
Falling Down the Lane
1:37
24
Interlude 12
0:56
25
[untitled]
4:07
26
Interlude 13
0:38
27
Down the Reeperbahn (Full Cast version)
2:17
28
Goodbye
0:29
Moments Worth Waiting For
The title track's opening piano chords that feel like they're emerging from a thick bank of fog.
The eerie, metallic resonance of the Stroh violins cutting through the sparse arrangement of 'And No One Knows I'm Gone'.
The transition into 'Table Top Joe' where the marimba adds a playful yet macabre circus energy to the record.
The way the bass clarinet anchors the mournful, slow-motion waltz of 'Everything You Can Think of Is True'.
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