, released earlier this month. It’s the first Crowded House record since Finn brought on his sons Liam and Elroy as official members. It’s also their first record since the group’s producer and close friend Mitchell Froom —whose history with the band dates all the way back to their debut LP in 1986 — finally joined as a full-time member.
And then when lockdown suddenly happened, we decided to take more time. It became really valuable, in a way. I was able to reassemble things, throw them up in the air, and in a few cases where they seemed to not quite click, I actually enjoyed the process of destroying and rebuilding. I can work on something for three days to get something to work, and when I find it doesn’t work, I quite enjoy abandoning it.
When I heard “Whatever You Want,” I thought about Donald Trump. It’s possible I’m being too America-centric with my thinking, though. I always think my lyrics are successful when people get the meaning wrong. I think, “Yep, great. I’ve done it again. I’ve confused people.” It just means the doors are open. I’ve had songs that people have gotten married to, and two weeks later, someone tells me they buried their father and used that same song. A lot of songwriters have had those experiences where people read songs in very personal ways. I hope that is happening with this record, too.
And Mitchell Froom and I have had a long association, obviously. He was involved with the beginning of the band and he defined some of the sound of Crowded House. It just all dropped into my head in the same day. I went, “There is this absolutely fantastic potential in Crowded House with these five people that are incredibly connected to the ethos and the soul of the band.”
He just got it straight away as well. We asked him to join way back when we did the first album and were going on the road. We were like, “Why don’t you come with us?” And he wanted to stay in the studio. He saw himself developing his production credentials. He’d only just begun at that point. And I totally got it. I mentioned it every now and then to him; I’d ask him put on the cape.
I think the sound of Nick’s bass playing is a very big part of Crowded House’s sound. Liam was the one who reminded me of that when this conversation began. The music just sounds different when Nick plays on it. And his spirit and his energy is incredible. Mitchell calls him “the most interested man in the world.” And it’s true.
NeilFinn is such a class-act
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