Alice (Tom Waits album)

Alice
Studio album / soundtrack by
Tom Waits
ReleasedMay 7, 2002 (2002-05-07)
StudioIn The Pocket, Forestville, California
Genre
Length48:23
LabelANTI-
ProducerKathleen Brennan, Tom Waits
Tom Waits chronology
Mule Variations
(1999) 		Alice
(2002) 		Blood Money
(2002)
Singles from Alice
  1. "Alice"
    Released: 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic90/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[5]
The Guardian[6]
Los Angeles Times[7]
NME8/10[8]
Pitchfork9.0/10[9]
Q[10]
Rolling Stone[11]
Spin7/10[12]
Uncut[13]

Alice is the fourteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label). It consists of songs written by Waits and Kathleen Brennan for the opera Alice ten years earlier. The opera was a collaboration with Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had previously worked on The Black Rider. Waits and Wilson collaborated again on Woyzeck; the songs from it were recorded and released on Blood Money at the same time as Alice.

  1. ^ a b Jacobs, Jay S. (2006). Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1550227161. Alice is a mix of Brechtian balladry, Dixieland jazz, and chamber music.
  2. ^ Kessel, Corinne, ed. (2008). The Words and Music of Tom Waits. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 38. ISBN 978-1569763124. The delicate jazz-tinged music on Alice is graceful and intoxicating and generally evades the harsh carnival clank and groan in which Waits has been submersed since Swordfishtrombones.
  3. ^ "Reviews for Alice by Tom Waits". Metacritic. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  4. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Alice – Tom Waits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  5. ^ Sinclair, Tom (May 10, 2002). "Blood Money / Alice". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on February 25, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  6. ^ Costa, Maddy (May 3, 2002). "We're all mad here". The Guardian. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  7. ^ Cromelin, Richard (May 5, 2002). "The Rasp Man Goes Operatic". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  8. ^ McNamee, Paul (May 18, 2002). "Waits, Tom : Alice". NME. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  9. ^ Bowers, William (May 13, 2002). "Tom Waits: Alice / Blood Money". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  10. ^ "Tom Waits: Alice". Q (190): 114. May 2002.
  11. ^ Fricke, David (April 25, 2002). "Alice". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  12. ^ Milner, Greg (June 2002). "Nowhere Men". Spin. 18 (6): 109. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  13. ^ "Tom Waits: Alice". Uncut (61): 106. June 2002.