Crowded House - Intriguer

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Oct 8, 2015 Sold Date

Sep 14, 2015 Start Date

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Article name: Intriguer
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Universal Number of tracks: 10

Tracklist LP - 1

1. Crowded House - Saturday Sun 2. Crowded House - Archer's Arrows 3. Crowded House - Amsterdam 4. Crowded House - Either Side of the World 5. Crowded House - Falling Dove 6. Crowded House - Isolation 7. Crowded House - Twice If You're Lucky 8. Crowded House - Inside Out 9. Crowded House - Even If 10. Crowded House - Elephants

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With the heavy lifting of the Crowded House reunion out of the way, Neil Finn is able to settle into comfortable craft on Intriguer, the band’s sixth album. Intriguer isn’t as self-consciously weighty as Time on Earth -- Finn is not tackling mortality in the wake of the death of his longtime friend and bandmate Paul Hester -- but it’s also not as hazy as Finn’s pair of solo LPs. In tone and timbre, it’s closest to the second Finn Brothers album, the ruminative Everyone Is Here, but it lacks the reflective undertow of that 2004 album; it may be subdued, but it’s not reveling in its melancholy, it’s riding a gentle wave, swaying from song to song. Sometimes the tempo gets slightly heated -- “Inside Out” works a nicely grinding guitar riff, “Saturday Sun” pulsates to an electronic rhythm -- but the album doesn’t command attention so much as it teases it. This light touch suits Finn’s songs; he’s favoring subtle craftsmanship over immediate hooks, so it only fits that the mood of Intriguer is soothing, something that pays off great dividends upon close listens. It may not be flashy but it’s sturdy and expertly honed, reflecting Finn’s craftsmanship on a song-by-song basis but holding together better as an album than any Finn project in recent memory. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine