Crowded House's Together Alone

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Barnaby Smith (Freelance writer, Independent Scholar, Australia) Jon Stratton (University of South Australia)

Crowded House's Together Alone

Barnaby Smith (Freelance writer, Independent Scholar, Australia), Jon Stratton (University of South Australia), Jon Dale (Independent Scholar Australia)

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
12 June 2025

Rock & Pop music; World music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Indigenous peoples

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania

Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House’s Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia’s most successful and adored bands.

Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House’s Together Alone (1993) 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, 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 analysis further explores the fragile alchemy that produced the most poetic statement in the Crowded House catalogue.

By: Barnaby Smith (Freelance writer Independent Scholar Australia)
Edited by: Jon Stratton (University of South Australia), Jon Dale (Independent Scholar Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 149g
ISBN: 9798765105153
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 12 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. I was standing on a wave: Introduction 2. You escape into a place where nothing moves 3. Cast me off one day, to lose my inhibition 4. The Only Place That I Always Run From: At Karekare 5. Waiting For the Band To Start: Song by Song 6. The chiming of a perfect chord: Track by track 7. A treasure I have gained: Aftermath Bibliography Index

Barnaby Smith is an award-winning writer, editor, critic, musician and poet based in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. He has written about music, art, literature and film for publications including The Quietus, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, NME and the ABC.