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Needle Mythology reissues 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 longtime 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 newlyexpanded 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 ” Time’.For this release, longtime 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 newlyunearthed 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 semiimprovised psychrock 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 cofounder Pete Paphides says, “As a lifelong fan of the Finn brothers’ music in all its incarnations, I’ m grateful that Tim and Neil have given us the opportunity to represent 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.” TracklistingDISC 11. Only Talking Sense2. Eyes Of The World3. Mood Swinging Man4. Last Day Of June5. Suffer Never6. Angels Heap7. Niwhai8. Where Is My Soul9. Bullets In My Hairdo10. Paradise Wherever You Are11. Kiss The Road Of RarotongaDISC 21. Catherine Wheels Home Demo2. Prodigal Son Home Demo3. FourStepping In ” Time Home Demo4. There Goes God Home Demo5. It’ s Only Natural Home Demo6. Weather With You Home Demo7. Strangeness And Charm Home Demo8. Four Seasons In One Day Home Demo9. In Love With It All Home Demo10. How Will You Go Home Demo
