: The sound is a blend of Brechtian cabaret , Dixieland jazz , and parlour ballads .
Tom Waits’ Alice (2002), particularly the released in 2022, serves as a melancholic, "underwater" dreamscape that explores the intersections of obsessive love and childhood innocence. Overview and Origins
Waits described the album as "adult songs for children, or children's songs for adults".
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.
: The album is a "loose concept" work centered on Lewis Carroll’s (Charles Dodgson) obsession with Alice Liddell , the child who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .