New album for Crowded House

• Published date: 18 April 2024
• Publication title: Te Awamutu Courier

Their eighth studio album will be available worldwide on May 31 via BMG

The new single played on stage in recent shows, formerly known as Life’s Imitation, has now curiously been renamed Teenage Summer.

“My grandson Manaia told me Teenage Summer was one of his favourite songs,” Finn said.

“He’d identified the peak moment in the song, and a light went on. It’s that simple: the children must be heard.”

Produced by the band with Steven Schram (Paul Kelly, San Cisco), Gravity Stairs shows Crowded House in its current incarnation — Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons Elroy and Liam.

Finn said the album title, Gravity Stairs, was inspired by an unnaturally heavy stone staircase near where he holidays.

“The ‘gravity stairs’ are symbolic of the struggle to ascend, acknowledging the opposing forces of weight on the mechanics of living. It’s an act of will every day.”

Crowded House have sold over 15 million records worldwide, as well as having earned 13 Aria Awards, an MTV VMA, and a Brit Award. The band have been captivating audiences for nearly four decades.

Originally founded by Finn, Seymour and the late Paul Hester, the group’s self-titled debut in 1986 went platinum, uplifted by iconic smash hits Something So Strong and Don’t Dream It’s Over, which have been covered by everyone from Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande to U2...