{"product_id":"crowded-houses-together-alone-9798765105153","title":"Crowded House's Together Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntertextual, passionate and personal throughout, \u003ci\u003eCrowded House's Together Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia's most successful and adored bands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's \u003ci\u003eTogether Alone\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) was unprecedented in its Australasian context, and in the process of making this album, the group's sound transformed profoundly. \u003ci\u003eCrowded House's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTogether Alone\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book also recounts author Barnaby Smith's visit to Karekare on the trail of \u003ci\u003eTogether Alone\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarnaby Smith\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Quietus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNME\u003c\/i\u003e and the ABC.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453924901138,"sku":"9798765105153","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_979475e0-625b-4210-a628-e9462cc6ecf3.jpg?v=1751984224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crowded-houses-together-alone-9798765105153","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}