Alice

Rock · 2002 · 15 tracks

Alice

A haunting song cycle of chamber jazz and Victorian waltzes. Sparse, piano-led arrangements replace his usual junk-shop noise with a profound, dusty tenderness.

It's Tom Waits at his most heartbreakingly beautiful, like a jazz club in a haunted Victorian mansion.

A ghost-story elegance that balances deep romantic obsession with a dusty, late-night melancholy.

Alice · vs · Tom Waits

Surreal Abstract+2.7σ

The writing leans far further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks

01

Alice

4:29

02

Everything You Can Think

3:10

03

Flower’s Grave

3:29

04

No One Knows I’m Gone

1:42

05

Kommienezuspadt

3:11

06

Poor Edward

3:43

07

Table Top Joe

4:14

08

Lost in the Harbour

3:45

09

We’re All Mad Here

2:32

10

Watch Her Disappear

2:34

11

Reeperbahn

4:03

12

I’m Still Here

1:49

13

Fish & Bird

4:00

14

Barcarolle

4:00

15

Fawn

1:44

Moments Worth Waiting For

The way the title track's saxophone curls like cigarette smoke around a skeletal piano melody.

The unsettling, mechanical clatter of Kommienezuspadt breaking the album's otherwise velvet stillness.

The heartbreaking intimacy of the cello and piano interplay on the closing instrumental Fawn.

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