Right up until he joined Fleetwood Mac in 2018, Neil Finn felt it was very likely that Crowded House would never make another record. The band’s lineup had shifted several times over the years, founding drummer Paul Hester was dead, and an attempt to record a follow-up to 2010’s Intriguer a few years prior to that was such a fiasco that Finn decided to shelve the entire project.
“I felt like there needed to be a sense of occasion to bring Crowded House back,” the singer-guitarist says on the phone from his native New Zealand.
“I felt like there needed to be a sense of occasion to bring Crowded House back,” the singer-guitarist says on the phone from his native New Zealand.
- 6/10/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
We’re in a bit of a summer lull this week, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of tasty releases. M.I.A. and Korn are this week’s biggest names to release albums on July 13, but there is a lovely, haunting effort from Danger Mouse & Sparklehouse, as well as the return of Morcheeba with original singer Skye Edwards. Crowded House, “Intriguer” (Fantasy/Concord): Australian band returns with second album since Paul Hester’s death. Produced by Jim Scott, the album includes many songs the band road-tested in order to give them a more lived-in feel. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, “Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse...
- 7/12/2010
- Hitfix
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