| Together We're Stranger | ||||
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| Released | 2 September 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2001–2003 | |||
| Genre | Post-rock, art rock, ambient | |||
| Length | 47:11 (CD) 53:45 (2-Disc Edition, 2014 Remaster 1-Disc Edition) | |||
| Label | Snapper Music | |||
| Producer | Tim Bowness, Steven Wilson | |||
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| CD/DVD-A | ||||
 Digitally Remastered CD-DVDA | ||||
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Classic rock | (8/10)[2] |
| Eastern Daily Press | [3] |
| Uncut | [4] |
Together We're Stranger is No-Man's fifth studio album released by the Snapper Music label in 2003.
The first four songs are linked to form a 28-minute suite of continuous music with recurring lyrical and musical themes. The remaining three songs feature acoustic guitar and clarinet-dominated arrangements and are amongst the band's most stripped-down and intimate recordings.[citation needed] In keeping with other No-Man releases, the title track reuses the musical basis of a previous Steven Wilson work: that of "Drugged" from his first Bass Communion album. The chord progression in "The Break-Up For Real" would later be reused by Wilson for songs on Porcupine Tree's 2009 album, The Incident.
The album was released in a limited edition white vinyl format on the Dutch label Tonefloat in November 2005 and in February 2007 on Snapper Music as a two disc CD/DVD edition comprising a remastered 5.1 DVD-A surround sound mix, high resolution 24 bit stereo of the album and additional bonus material. In 2014 was released a remaster (by Steven Wilson) single-disc edition on the Kscope label, includes 2 bonus tracks "Bluecoda" and "The Break-up for Real – drum mix".
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Together We're Stranger" | 8:31 |
| 2. | "All the Blue Changes" | 7:48 |
| 3. | "The City in a Hundred Ways" | 2:23 |
| 4. | "Things I Want to Tell You" | 9:03 |
| 5. | "Photographs in Black and White" | 10:03 |
| 6. | "Back When You Were Beautiful" | 5:07 |
| 7. | "The Break-up for Real" | 4:11 |
| 8. | "Bluecoda" (vinyl bonus track later included on the high resolution stereo and surround mixes of the two disc Snapper edition and on 2014 remaster 1-disc edition; originally placed before "Photographs in Black and White") | 2:36 |
| 9. | "The Break-up for Real – drum mix" (vinyl bonus track later included on the high resolution stereo and surround mix of the two disc Snapper edition and on 2014 remaster 1-disc edition; originally replaced the other version on the single LP editions, then was included in addition to the original mix on the double LP pressing) | 3:58 |
The two disc edition (on Snapper Music) comes with the original stereo mix on CD and a DVD featuring the album in 5.1 DVD-A surround sound and in high resolution 24 bit stereo, with bonus tracks "Bluecoda" and "The Break-up for Real – drum mix" as well as the video for "Things I Want to Tell You"[5] and a photo gallery. Both "Bluecoda" and "The Break-up for Real – drum mix" later appeared on the compilation album All the Blue Changes – An Anthology 1988–2003 and on the 2014 Remaster version of the album, released by Kscope label.
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