Alone in a Crowd

Alone in a Crowd was the first full-length Catch 22 release featuring the band's second lineup. The album features a song trilogy, "What Goes Around Comes Around" ,"Bloomfield Avenue" and "Neverending Story", which follows two young lovers who commit multiple acts of homicide on a cross-country spree before finally succumbing to their own personal demons. Other themes on the album include a longing for childhood and home and a general feeling of alienation from the rest of the world, hence the album title.

The end of the album features six blank tracks, each 22 seconds long, followed by a bonus track that starts after 22 seconds of silence, bringing the album to a total of 22 tracks.

To promote the album, the band made a music video for "Point the Blame", the album's first single. However, due to financial problems, the video was never completed.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jeff Davidson and Ryan Eldred unless otherwise noted. 

• If you take the seconds of the CD length and subtract the minutes from it, the difference is 22, adding to the other, almost subliminal, 22s found throughout the album.

Personnel

• Pat Kays - bass guitar
• Mike Soprano - trombone, vocals
• Ryan Eldred - saxophone, vocals
• Chris Greer - drum kit
• Kevin Gunther - trumpet, vocals
• Pat Calpin - guitar
• Jeff Davidson - vocals

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