Neil & Liam Finn

Neil Finn and Liam Finn have today announced their first album together, Lightsleeper, out August 24th via Inertia and [PIAS]. The album announcement arrives with lead single ‘Back To Life’, where powerful melodies join vulnerable lyrics, evoking the magic that happens when people gather to sing and remember absent friends – love’s triumphant ability to transcend our physical world. As it’s a family affair, it’s entirely fitting that the story of Lightsleeper begins at a wedding and here the album opens with a gift from father to son on his wedding day, “Together, Together”, the chorus of ‘Island of Peace’ begins. Recorded mainly in Neil’s Auckland studio, Lightsleeper bursts with melody and the trademark, euphoric flips that the Finn family are known for. When Liam’s lo-fi atmospherics meet Neil’s iconic pop sensibility, it’s met with a feeling of intimacy and awe that makes it easy to wonder why the dynamic father and son duo haven’t written together, earlier.

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