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Finn

The Finn Brothers

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: NEMYLP006

Release Date:  29 July 2022

Label:  Needle Mythology

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  195081002132

Genres:  Pop  

Release Date:  03 November 2023

Label:  Needle Mythology

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  195081002088

Genres:  Pop  

  • Description

    Needle Mythology reissue a special expanded album edition of Finn, the album released by New Zealand's most celebrated musical siblings Tim and Neil Finn to acclaim both from critics and long-time fans who had followed the pair's work since their time in together in Split Enz. This is the first time Finn has received a vinyl release.

    Released in close collaboration with Tim and Neil, the newly-expanded Finn comes with an entire album The Finn Demos, which gathers together ten songs from 1989's legendary Murchison St sessions, remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Convening at Neil's new Melbourne apartment with a view to making an album together, Tim and Neil embarked on an intensely productive period, writing several songs that would briefly result in Tim joining Crowded House for the resulting Woodface album.


    Assisted by the late Paul Hester on drums, the demos capture a host of songs that would go on to be played in arenas around the world in their newborn state: 'It's Only Natural', 'Catherine Wheels', 'Weather With You', featuring a whole extra verse and the previously unreleased 'Four Stepping in 3/4 Time'.

    For this release, long-time fan and collaborator on Neil's 7 Worlds Collide project, Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) contributed liner notes, hymning the album's "heavy" beauty and its "elemental energy." Featuring brand new artwork designed by Needle Mythology's James Gosling, the expanded Finn features newly-unearthed images of Tim and Neil taken by Darryl Ward during the sessions for the album.

    For this release, Tim and Neil have also shared the "listening notes" submitted by the brothers' parents - something they would do for every song their sons wrote.

    For Finn, Tim and Neil enlisted the services of Tchad Blake, whose "feel"-based approach brought out the best in the brothers, who played every instrument on the record. Writing about the record for Mojo at the time, David Hepworth characterised Finn as a "warm and loose record" that hardcore fans would undoubtedly "adore".

    Originally released on Parlophone Records, Finn spawned an unlikely top 30 hit, the mesmerising semi-improvised psych-rock fan favourite 'Suffer Never'.

    The expanded double album edition of Finn has been cut at Abbey Road by Miles Showell and pressed on 180g vinyl at The Vinyl Factory.

    Of this release, Needle Mythology co-founder Pete Paphides says, "As a life-long fan of the Finn brothers' music in all its incarnations, I'm grateful that Tim and Neil have given us the opportunity to re-present their work to the world in a manner that befits the magic of these sessions. The experience of hearing these songs emerge from the speakers at Abbey Road is one I'll never forget."

    Description

    Needle Mythology reissue a special expanded album edition of Finn, the album released by New Zealand's most celebrated musical siblings Tim and Neil Finn to acclaim both from critics and long-time fans who had followed the pair's work since their time in together in Split Enz.

    Released in close collaboration with Tim and Neil, the newly-expanded Finn comes with an entire album The Finn Demos, which gathers together ten songs from 1989's legendary Murchison St sessions, remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Convening at Neil's new Melbourne apartment with a view to making an album together, Tim and Neil embarked on an intensely productive period, writing several songs that would briefly result in Tim joining Crowded House for the resulting Woodface album.

    Assisted by the late Paul Hester on drums, the demos capture a host of songs that would go on to be played in arenas around the world in their newborn state: 'It's Only Natural', 'Catherine Wheels', 'Weather With You', featuring a whole extra verse and the previously unreleased 'Four Stepping in 3/4 Time'.

    For this release, long-time fan and collaborator on Neil's 7 Worlds Collide project, Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) contributed liner notes, hymning the album's "heavy" beauty and its "elemental energy." Featuring brand new artwork designed by Needle Mythology's James Gosling, the expanded Finn features newly-unearthed images of Tim and Neil taken by Darryl Ward during the sessions for the album. For this release, Tim and Neil have also shared the "listening notes" submitted by the brothers' parents - something they would do for every song their sons wrote.

    For Finn, Tim and Neil enlisted the services of Tchad Blake, whose "feel"-based approach brought out the best in the brothers, who played every instrument on the record. Writing about the record for Mojo at the time, David Hepworth characterised Finn as a "warm and loose record" that hardcore fans would undoubtedly "adore".

    Originally released on Parlophone Records, Finn spawned an unlikely top 30 hit, the mesmerising semi-improvised psych-rock fan favourite 'Suffer Never'.

    The expanded double album edition of Finn has been cut at Abbey Road by Miles Showell. The CD version is presented as the original album plus a separate disc containing the bonus tracks.

    Of this release, Needle Mythology co-founder Pete Paphides says, "As a life-long fan of the Finn brothers' music in all its incarnations, I'm grateful that Tim and Neil have given us the opportunity to re-present their work to the world in a manner that befits the magic of these sessions. The experience of hearing these songs emerge from the speakers at Abbey Road is one I'll never forget."

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Niwhai
      • 2. Eyes Of The World
      • 3. Bullets In My Hairdo
      • 4. Paradise (Wherever You Are)
      • 5. Kiss The Road Of Rarotonga
      • 6. Angel's Heap

      Disc 2

      • 1. Weather With You (Demo)
      • 2. Prodigal Son (Demo)
      • 3. Four Seasons In One Day (Demo)
      • 4. In Love With It All (Demo)
      • 5. How Will You Go (Demo)

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Only Talking Sense
      • 2. Eyes Of The World
      • 3. Mood Swinging Man
      • 4. Last Day Of June
      • 5. Suffer Never
      • 6. Angel's Heap
      • 7. Niwhai
      • 8. Where Is My Soul
      • 9. Bullets In My Hairdo
      • 10. Paradise (Wherever You Are)
      • 11. Kiss The Road Of Rarotonga

      Disc 2

      • 1. Catherine Wheels Home Demo
      • 2. Prodigal Son Home Demo
      • 3. Four-Stepping In 3/4 Time Home Demo
      • 4. There Goes God Home Demo
      • 5. It’s Only Natural Home Demo
      • 6. Weather With You Home Demo
      • 7. Strangeness And Charm Home Demo
      • 8. Four Seasons In One Day Home Demo
      • 9. In Love With It All Home Demo
      • 10. How Will You Go Home Demo