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: Moving away from the "carnival clank" of earlier works like Swordfishtrombones , Alice utilizes a "skeleton chamber orchestra" featuring pump organ , Stroh violins , cello , and vibraphone .

: The sound is a blend of Brechtian cabaret , Dixieland jazz , and parlour ballads . Download File Tom Waits - Alice (Anniversary Ed...

Waits described the album as "adult songs for children, or children's songs for adults". : Moving away from the "carnival clank" of

Though released in 2002 alongside Blood Money , the material for Alice was originally written in 1992 for a theatrical production directed by at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Download File Tom Waits - Alice (Anniversary Ed...

: Critics describe it as a "fever dream" or "tone poem" characterized by a "lyrical melancholia". Key Tracks and Themes