New releases for 31 May 2024

The first of this week’s sparklers is Gravity Stairs, the eighth album from Crowded House, on which the band’s current incarnation – Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons Elroy and Liam – prove to be as sharp as ever, feeling musically adventurous and still capable of reaching the staggering highs that have…

New releases for 4 June 2021

This week’s aural nuggets open with Crowded House’s seventh studio album, Dreamers Are Waiting, which was recorded in Valentine and United Studios in LA and then remotely during the first half of 2020. Crowded House is a long-standing and much-loved vehicle for the songwriting talents of Neil Finn, formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985 from…