Crowded House Together Alone

3 Stars - Good - "...On TOGETHER ALONE, Crowded House's fourth album, the lurking melancholy has come out of the shadows and moved into the foreground....alluring sounds are still juxtaposed with ugly scenes...a dramatic technique which may be the band's forte..."
"...songwriter Neil Finn's expertly tuned pop instincts sometimes rise to his old form..." - Rating: B
Included in Q's list of 'The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...fabulously well-turned songs edged by the non-conformism that comes from being nurtured outside of the US/British musical mainstream...."
5 Stars - Indispensible - "...TOGETHER ALONE is every bit as good as it sounds..."
"...TOGETHER ALONE is sublime, a smouldering elegy to a relationship too painful to continue, too inextricable to fully exorcise....Pop is far from dead. It'll die when someone wears out the last copy of [this album]..."
Stereo Review (4/94, p.90) - Performance: Strong / Recording: Superb - "...strange and wonderful things can still happen in this imperfect world...musically [TOGETHER ALONE] is wonderfully rich and full..."
(7) - Very Good - "...TOGETHER ALONE is an ambitious and impressive fourth album....Crowded House have finally broken free of the Del Amitri netherworld of 30-something AOR..."