June 5, 2018 For Immediate Release

Neil & Announce First Album Together, Lightsleeper, Out August 24th via Inertia Music and [PIAS], New Single “Back To Life”

Listen to “Back To Life” Here

Photo Credit: Russ Flatt

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 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.

The simple Finn family ethos of making music with friends and family continues right through to the personnel recruited for the album; the touring band, Sharon Finn - Neil's wife, and Liam's mother - plays bass on two of the songs, Elroy Finn - Liam's brother - drums on seven; and good friend returns for four. Greek friends Elias Dendias and Spiros Anemogianis bring plaintive bouzouki and accordion to 'Back To Life', and legendary turns up to play on 'Anger Plays A Part', 'Any Other Way' and 'We Know What It Means'.

The unmistakeable spirit - of musicians at their peak, bound together by a still-hot desire to make music that isn't simply that year's work, but something brewed up with bones, love, quiet revelation and the perfectly- evoked euphoria of being alive - is what makes Lightsleeper such a gorgeous progression in the Finn family musical history.

Stream “Back To Life” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3gcwG8cTOs&feature=youtu.be

Neil & Liam Finn Lightsleeper

1. Island of Peace 2. Meet Me In The Air 3. Where's My Room 4. Anger Plays A Part 5. Listen 6. Any Other Way 7. Back To Life 8. Hiding Place 9. Ghosts 10. We Know What It Means 11. Hold Her Close

Pre-order Lightsleeper – https://neilandliamfinn.link.to/lightsleeper

Lightsleeper cover art

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