September 2003

Together We're Stranger
No-Man

  1. Together We're Stranger
  2. All The Blue Changes
  3. The City In A Hundred Ways
  4. Things I Want To Tell You
  5. Photographs In Black And White
  6. Back When You Were Beautiful
  7. The Break-Up For Real
Together We're Stranger is the fifth studio album by British art rock band No-Man. It continues the ambient postrock style that they switched to in the preceding album Returning Jesus, but if anything it is even more compelling - adding a (bass) clarinet to the instrumentation at places was a brilliant idea. The first four tracks flow seamlessly from one into the other, and can be considered one formidable 28 minutes suite. My favourite songs are Together We're Stranger, Things I Want to Tell You, Photographs In Black And White, and Back When You Were Beautiful.

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