Platinum-selling, multi-ARIA and BRIT award-winning band Crowded House have released their eighth studio album, Gravity Stairs. It is the Australian rock band’s first new release since 2021’s Dreamers Are Waiting and their first since announcing they had signed a recordings deal with BMG earlier this year.
Produced by the band with the renowned Steven Schram, the album finds Crowded House in its current incarnation – Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons Elroy and Liam – as sharp as ever, and still capable of reaching the staggering highs that have made them an international favorite. It’s the act of climbing those figurative “gravity stairs,” inspired by a heavy stone staircase near where Finn vacations, that he likens to his own mindset as a creator.
“It’s a metaphor for getting a little older and becoming aware of your own mortality, your own physicality,” Finn says. “Things are getting a little harder, and there’s more determination needed to get to the top, but there’s still the same compulsion to climb them.”
Featuring 11 new songs – including previously released singles ‘Oh Hi’, ‘Teenage Summer’ and ‘The Howl’, the album showcases the band’s musical evolution and commitment to delivering thought-provoking and inspiring sounds that resonate with fans old and new. Crowded House have sold over 15 million records worldwide, won 13 ARIA Awards, eight APRA Awards, a BRIT Award, an MTV VMA, have been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, and accumulated billions of streams.
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