Alternative 4
by Anathema
- Type: Album
- Released: 22 June 1998
- Label: Peaceville
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 57:23
- Community rating: 4.09/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Vincent Cavanagh, Shaun Taylor-Steels
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Alternative 4' marks a definitive shift from doom metal to incredibly melancholic and somber alternative rock for Anathema. The album is deeply introspective and existential, utilizing atmospheric piano and sentimental arrangements to explore profound themes of loneliness and depression.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, existential, bleak, metallic, funereal
Tracklist
- Shroud Of False (1:36)
- Fragile Dreams (5:32)
- Empty (3:00)
- Lost Control (5:49)
- Re-Connect (3:52)
- Inner Silence (3:08)
- Alternative 4 (6:17)
- Regret (7:58)
- Feel (5:28)
- Destiny (2:15)
- Your Possible Pasts (4:28)
- One Of The Few (1:51)
- Better Off Dead (4:22)
- Goodbye Cruel World (1:40)
Credits
- Anathema - primary artist
- Tim Spear - artwork [front cover artwork], design/illustration
- Duncan Patterson - bass, cover [cover concept], piano, keyboards, words by, music by, bass guitar keyboard piano instrument
- Shaun Taylor-Steels - drums
- Simon Dawson - engineer [assistant], assistant engineer
- Danny Cavanagh - guitar [guitars], piano, keyboards, words by, music by
- Fay Woolven - management
- One Fifteen - management
- Paul Loasby - management
- Noel Summerville - mastered by, mastering
- Doug Cook - mixed by [assistant], assistant mix
- Lili Wilde - photography by [band photography], photography
- Kit Woolven - producer, mixed by, mix
- George Ricci - violin [charming], violin instrument
- Vincent Cavanagh - voice, guitar, words by, music by, guitar instrument, lead vocals vocal
- Andy Duncan - programmed by [drum loops]
- Daniel Cavanagh - guitar keyboard piano instrument
- Shaun Taylor鈥怱teels - drums (drum set) instrument