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After a wildly successful career--first with NZ art-pop act Split Enz, then with pop classicists Crowded House--singer-songwriter Finn was understandably eager to shed many of his audience's expectations for this, his long-awaited solo debut. The album's first single, "Sinner", was presumably intended to alert fans that this was a different kind of Neil Finn album--looser, slightly funkier--and elsewhere, too, a spirit of playful experimentalism prevails. Tracks like "808 Song" and "Astro" find him incorporating discreet layers of technology and unexpected influences (house music, trance) into what
After a wildly successful career--first with NZ art-pop act Split Enz, then with pop classicists Crowded House--singer-songwriter Finn was understandably eager to shed many of his audience's expectations for this, his long-awaited solo debut. The album's first single, "Sinner", was presumably intended to alert fans that this was a different kind of Neil Finn album--looser, slightly funkier--and elsewhere, too, a spirit of playful experimentalism prevails. Tracks like "808 Song" and "Astro" find him incorporating discreet layers of technology and unexpected influences (house music, trance) into what remains, at heart, an essentially handmade, linear song-writing technique. Yet much like the Paul McCartney he reveres, Finn can never entirely resist the lure of a good tune, and tracks like "She Will Have Her Way" also see him at his most shamelessly Beatlesque. The album's intimate feel will satisfy established fans, but ultimately, it can't help but seem a little half-hearted, achieving neither the glorious heights of transcendence, nor the depths of heartache, of which he has previously proved himself capable. --Andrew McGuire
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Manufacturer: Parlophone
Release date: 15 June 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724349513921 UPC: 724349513921
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