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Crowded House's Together Alone

by Barnaby Smith

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An album read through its landscape

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AlbakiReads Editorial

An album read through its landscape

Barnaby Smith examines Crowded House’s *Together Alone* through its songs, recording history and connection to Karekare Beach in West Auckland. The book combines lyric analysis, music theory, biography and psychogeography, placing the album within a wider artistic context as well as the band’s development. Smith also recounts visiting Karekare, tracing how a place can be experienced through its association with music. A song-by-song discussion gives the study a clear structure, linking the album’s individual tracks to the circumstances and setting around its creation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Crowded House fans interested in the making and context of *Together Alone*.
  • Readers of music scholarship that brings lyric analysis and biography together.
  • Those interested in the relationship between music and landscape.

Themes

Album creation and band dynamicsSong and lyric analysisMusic and landscapePsychogeography

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Book overview

Intertextual, passionate and personal, combining poetics, psychogeography, music theory, lyric analysis and biography, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to scholarship on this cherished band.

Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's Together Alone was unprecedented in its Australasian context, and in the process of making this album, the group's sound transformed profoundly. Crowded House's Together Alone examines why Neil Finn took the daring decision to record amid the wilds of Karekare Beach, West Auckland. It considers how British producer Youth impacted the band's dynamics and places the album within a wider artistic context, expanding beyond pop.

The book also recounts author Barnaby Smith's visit to Karekare on the trail of Together Alone's atmospheric melancholy - a psychogeographic adventure exploring what it means to visit a landscape under the spell of the music it has inspired. A song-by-song critique further illuminates the fragile alchemy that produced the most poetic statement in the Crowded House catalogue.

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