Neil Finn – Out Of Silence (Vinyl)
Lester Records (2017)
$50.00
Brand New — Sealed! Vinyl LP With Gatefold Cover. Includes Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. The Fourth Solo Album From New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Neil Finn, Of Split Enz & Crowded House.
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Brand New — Sealed! Vinyl LP With Gatefold Cover. Includes Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. ‘Out Of Silence’ Is The Fourth Solo Album From New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Neil Finn, Of Split Enz & Crowded House.
“For a long time, I’ve wanted to do a record in one crack and get it out in a week. So that’s what we’re doing. Then I thought, ‘Well if we’re going to do that, let’s not make it a little acoustic thing that’s easy to record in one session. Let’s make it the most sophisticated record I’ve ever made.”
All things considered — the live worldwide stream, the tight deadline — you would expect Neil Finn to be the most anxious person present at the recording of his fourth solo album ‘Out Of Silence’. However, if you take a minute to survey the throng surrounding him in his Auckland studio, a different picture emerges. Aware that more anything in excess of three takes of any one song is likely to set the schedule back, the orchestra’s bonhomie is laced by a mixture of black coffee, adrenalin and intense focus. When the time comes to record their parts, the players in the house band occasionally look up to take their cues from the man whose songs they’re here to enhance. For the album’s arranger Victoria Kelly, this is the moment when months of meticulous scoring burst into life. But on the sleeve of the resulting record, it’s only Neil Finn’s name you’ll see. That’s a weight only he bears. And yet, seated at the upright piano on which many of these songs came to life, he is, by some distance, the most relaxed person in the room.
Side 1:
Love Is Emotional
More Than One Of You
Chameleon Days
Independence Day
Alone
Side 2:
Widow’s Peak
Second Nature
The Law Is Always On Your Side
Terrorise Me
I Know Different
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Such a simple, yet kinetic, production is the only way to do justice to songs are rich as these. 4 ½ Stars One element that's tied together Neil Finn's solo career is how every album, no matter how excellent it may be, has worn its labor on its sleeve. By the time he got to 2014's dense, ambitious Dizzy Heights, he was seemingly spending as much time on the production as he was on the songcraft, so the directness of Out of Silence comes as a bit of a shock. Alternately austere and lush, Out of Silence largely lacks guitar and drums, opting for stately arrangements of piano, strings, and voice. This is a big change from the electronic shimmer of Dizzy Heights, but Out of Silence is immediate in a way that its elliptical predecessor wasn't. Much of this is due to Finn recording the album live in the studio in a swift four-hour session that was live-streamed on the Internet, but that story, as intriguing as it is, threatens to reduce Out of Silence to the realm of a gimmick when it's better seen as a course correction that shifts attention back to the fundamentals of Finn's compositions. As grand as these lush arrangements can be, they never draw attention to the sound of the recording; they're there to accentuate and enhance the songs. Such transparency has the effect of highlighting Finn's songs, which are on the whole moody and meditative, alternating between reassurance and provocation. Certainly, Finn is in an unusually political mood -- "The Law Is Always on Your Side" and "Terrorise Me" are empathetic protest songs with an angry undercurrent -- but that signals how singularly focused his writing is here. His sweetness and melancholy are as palpable in the composition as they are in the performance and, ultimately, that's why the live-in-the-studio recording of Out of Silence cannot be dismissed as a stunt: such a simple, yet kinetic, production is the only way to do justice to songs are rich as these. 4 ½ Stars