ANDY WHITE & TIM FINN

Neil Jeffries

AT A follow-up to ALT’S 'Altitude’ album of 1995. Andy White (solo artist/sometime Peter Gabriel co-writer) and NZ legend Tim Finn reunited (the ‘L’ of ALT was Hothouse Flowers founder Liam Ó Maonlaí, who elected to pass here). The pair bounced tracks between home studios then sent the files to ace producer John Leckie (who’d worked with White before). Leckie surprised them by using pretty much everything to create fabulously rich textures. Laden with hooks, in places it plays like an echo of the album ‘Finn’, made with his brother Neil in 2004. It’s quirky but never twee, cleverly delivering protest (as on Three Sheep Grazing, surely the first use of ‘contented herbivores’ in a lyric) and politics (Happiness Index) before ending on Rock N Roll Star, a witty pastiche of…

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