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.
Released in 1993, Together Alone was an album that fundamentally reshaped Crowded House. Following the hugely popular Woodface (1991), with all its radio-friendly hits, Neil Finn pursued an artistic direction that would twist the band's chemistry, stretch them in experimental sonic directions and embrace a decidedly melancholy lyrical tenor. To achieve this, he opted for a concentrated and intentional immersion in place and landscape - that place being Karekare, a rugged coastal locale in West Auckland.