Crowded House announced their first new studio album in over a decade, Dreamers are waiting. The 2010 follow-up Intriguing, the LP will be released on June 4th via BMG and is available for pre-order here.
The band also released a new video for the LP single “To the Island”. The clip directed by Neil Finn was filmed in New Zealand, Los Angeles and Ireland. The visual introduces each bandmate to different locations before meeting at a concert. They drive, canoe and rappel to a mysterious club, where the fairies appear and a psychedelic dance party begins.
“Oh, let me take you / Come to the island / Where we can save our souls”, the group harmonizes in the chorus. “It’s the right size (for me) / The world is beyond us / It’s too big / But, oh, the island is perfect / It’s the perfect size.”
Last year, the group shared the video starring Mac DeMarco for “Whatever You Want”. The song will also appear in Dreamers are waiting.
“We were fortunate enough to record in the studio just before closing and then we started this album with the band’s tracks recorded live in a room, all full of personality and energy,” said Finn in a statement about the LP. “We then spent our strangest year, 2020, distant from each other, but connecting daily, exchanging files and completing these tracks. We are very excited and grateful to be back in a room together now, rehearsing, first to play live in front of the audience in New Zealand and soon we will be waiting for the rest of the world. “
Crowded House – founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, along with the return of producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons, guitarist and singer Liam Finn and drummer Elroy Finn – will embark on a tour of New Zealand next month .
Dreamers are waiting tracklist
1. “Bad, good times”
2. “Playing with Fire”
3. “To the Island”
4. “Sweet Tooth”
5. “Whatever you want”
6. “Show me the way”
7. “Good night, everyone”
8. “Beginning of something”
9. “Too good for this world”
10. “Real life woman”
11. “Love is not difficult at all”
12. “Further down”