Together We're Stranger

Infobox Album
Name = Together We're Stranger
Type = studio
Artist = No-Man


Recorded = 2001 to 2003
Released = September 2, 2003
Genre = Post Rock, Art rock, Ambient, Singer Songwriter
Length = 47:11
Label = Snapper Music
Producer = Tim Bowness, Steven Wilson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3y61mpek9fco link]
*"Classic rock" (8/10) [http://www.no-man.co.uk/recordings/togetherwerestranger-reviews.html#classicrock link]
*"Eastern Daily Press" rating|4|4 [http://www.no-man.co.uk/recordings/togetherwerestranger-reviews.html link]
*"Uncut" Rating|4|5 [http://www.uncut.net/music/no-man/reviews/5585 link]
Last album = "Returning Jesus" (2001)
This album = "Together We're Stranger" (2003)
Next album = "Schoolyard Ghosts" (2008)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = CD/DVD-A
Type = Album

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Lower caption = Digitally Remastered CD-DVDA

Released by Snapper Music in 2003, "Together We're Stranger" is No-Man's fifth studio album.

The first four songs are linked to form a 28-minute suite of continuous music with recurring lyrical and musical themes. Atmospheric and ambitious, this aspect of the album in some way recalls the more Ambient elements of Pink Floyd, Brian Eno and Miles Davis and the later experiments of Mark Hollis/Talk Talk.

The remaining three songs prominently feature acoustic guitar and clarinet dominated arrangements and are amongst the band's most stripped-down and intimate recordings.

Comparable in parts to the "exposed" approach of bands such as Red House Painters, Lambchop or Low, "Together We're Stranger" represents the band's sparsest and most directly emotional work to date.

The album was released in a limited edition white vinyl format on the Dutch label Tonefloat in November 2005 and as a re-mastered 5.1 surround sound CD/DVD-A (on Snapper Music) in February, 2007.

Track listing

# "Together We're Stranger" - 8:31
# "All the Blue Changes" - 7:48
# "The City in a Hundred Ways" - 2:23
# "Things I Want to Tell You" - 9:03
# "Photographs in Black and White" - 10:03
# "Back When You Were Beautiful" - 5:07
# "The Breakup for Real" - 4:11

DVD-A (5.1 surround sound remaster)

# Together We're Stranger (8:31)
# All The Blue Changes (7:48)
# The City In A Hundred Ways (2:23)
# Things I Want To Tell You (9:03)
# Photographs In Black And White (10:03)
# Back When You Were Beautiful (5:07)
# The Break-up For Real (4:11)
# The Break-up For Real - drum mix (3.58)
# (bluecoda) (2.36)
# Things I Want To Tell You - video [cite web | url = http://www.stephenjamesbennett.co.uk/reverse/Videos/tiw2tytdewdslm.mov | title = "music video directed by Stephen Bennett" | date = 2007-06-12 | accessdate= 2007-06-26]
# (photo gallery)

Credits

*Tim Bowness - vocals, words
*Steven Wilson - instruments, harmony vocals

with:

*Michael Bearpark - guitar solo (1)
*Stephen Bennett - noise (1), organ and cymbal (6)
*Ben Castle - clarinet, bass clarinet, flute
*Peter Chilvers - space-bass (1,2), bass (6)
*Roger Eno - harmonium (5)
*David Picking - trumpet (1,2), electronics (1,2,3,4), percussion (2,5)

External links

* [http://www.no-man.co.uk No-Man's Official Website]
* [http://www.burningshed.com/aconfession/ No-Man's Fan Site]

References