Crowded House announced their first new studio album in over a decade, Dreamers wait. The follow-up to 2010s Intriguer, the MP will be released on June 4 via BMG and is available here to pre-order.
The band also released a new video for the LP single ‘To the Island’. The Neil Finn director has been filmed in New Zealand, Los Angeles and Ireland. The footage contains each bandmate at different venues before meeting a concert. They ride, canoe and rappel their way to a mysterious club, where fairies appear and a psychedelic dance party breaks out.
“Oh, let me move you / Come to the island / Where we can save our soul,” harmonizes the group on the chorus. “It’s just the right size (for me) / The world is beyond us / it’s too huge / But oh the island is just right / it’s the perfect size.”
Last year, the group shared the Mac DeMarco star video for “Whatever You Want.” The song will also appear on Dreamers wait.
“We were lucky to record in the studio before closing time and that’s why this album starts with tracks recorded live in a room full of character and energy,” Finn said in a statement on the MP. ‘We then spent our strangest year, 2020, at a distance from each other, but connected daily, swapping files and completing the tracks. We are so excited and grateful that we can now practice together in one room again, to first play live in front of the audience in NZ and soon we hope for the rest of the world. ”
Crowded House – founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, along with returning producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons, guitarist and singer Liam Finn and drummer Elroy Finn, will embark on a New Zealand tour next month.
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1. “Bad times good”
2. “Play with fire”
3. “To the island”
4. “Sweet Tooth”
5. “Whatever you want”
6. “Show me the way”
7. “Good night everyone”
8. “Start of something”
9. “Too good for this world”
10. “Woman from real life”
11. “Love is not difficult at all”
12. “Deeper down”