Neil Finn - One Nil
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Free Music Notes for One Nil
Free Music Review: One Big Step Forward
Hit: 5 Stars
Although I seem to be in a minority, I felt that Finn's previous work before this release was a major letdown. That album, Try Whistling This, lacked worthwhile melodies and the production was surprisingly stale considering a Neil Finn project.
From that standpoint, I was not expecting too much from One Nil. Such fears were unwarranted because this is where he should have continued from Crowded House's Together Alone, their finest release IMHO. It was evident straight from the opening track, The Climber, that his originality and knack of writing melodic and yet warm tunes (even those organically produced) was back. Rest of the Day Off follows, giving the opening stages a splendid flow that remains mostly throughout the record.
The production is less dense than TWT and one senses that Neil has regained his confidence which probably took some beating during the final stages of Crowded House.
Highlights include Wherever You Are, Turn & Run (a duet with Sheryl Crow) and Into the Sunset. The only tracks not up to par are Don't Ask Why and Elastic Heart but those are in no way songs one reaches out for the remote for.
This album is definitely among Neil Finn's best work and hopefully a signal that TWT was only a minor sidestep of his consistency in producing among the best work in pop music in recent years and the future.
One last note, the US version, dubbed One All, is even better.
Free Music Review: Buy it, buy it, buy it....you will not be sorry!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is astoundingly good! I never thought Neil could ever top CH's "Temple of Low Men"-but he does! Neil has such a talent for writing classic pop songs which are never predictable. The songs start one way and then the cords change unexpectedly, yet they always hit the perfect note. With songs like "Hole in the Ice" "Turn & Run" etc, this is the best he has ever done. The album rocks, yet there are songs that are intensly intimate and moving like "Wherever You Are" and "Into the Sunset". Sheryl Crowe and Neil sound like they were born to sing together and it sounds refreshing to hear him sing with female voices. As he says in one song, music is "driving him mad"-you feel his pain and lonliness about being driven to write and perform and be away from his home and family, yet I am also so thankful that he shares his wonderful gift. I have never heard such a satisfying album, the songs, Neils voice, the production, the sonic punch - pure perfection! I highly recommend it, buy it now!!Free Music Review: Like being there
Hit: 5 Stars
The 2nd solo album from Neil Finn was recorded to sound as if you're in his studio, listening to him and his band put it all together. You hear just enough little bits of talk as the album kicks off to make it seem that way. The sounds on this album use a fair amount of distortion at times and this gives the songs a rougher, lovely unfinished feel - a nice departure from point perfect studio cuts.This is a very listenable album with great melodies typical of Neil. The first 4 songs segue into each other beautifully and sound great as an unit. My vote for favorite track goes to "Anytime", no one else writes such poignant lyrics. I could listen to that song forever! Other great songs include "Whereever You Are" and "Rest of the Day Off".
For those in the US, it's on the pricey side but well worth it. A fine follow up to Try Whistling This.
Free Music Review: More music of transcendental beauty
Hit: 5 Stars
I believe that's how one reviewer once described Crowded House, and if anything, Neil sounds a bit more Crowded House-y on this solo project than he did on Try Whistling This, if only for the presence of Mitchell Froom on some tracks. I vastly prefer this original over the remixed, reordered One All US release for many reasons, not the least of which is that is flows better. One Nil is an album about fidelity and maintaining a relationship, and while Don't Ask Why is a bit of an oddball in that theme, I've always liked it. Much more central to the theme, if indeed one takes this as a concept album, is Elastic Heart, which has some lovely brass work (think Together Alone) and lyrics that speak to the concepts of forgiveness, compromise, and reapprochment - it's not a date song, it's a marriage song, and it's one that means a lot to me. The whole album is highly recommended.Free Music Review: Not a review, a commentary
Hit: 5 Stars
THIS REVIEW IS NO LONGER RELEVANT. THERE IS A US VERSION NOW.
So, ahem, where is the US release of this obviously fine album? I haven't yet decided to fork over 20 + American to hear one of the world's greatest songwriters' new collection because I have to assume that there's an American record distributor who wants to sell me, at an American price, the latest work from the auteur behind Crowded House and the fellow whose Try Whistling This was such a huge success. So if any U.S. record companies are reading this...shame on you for being so slow. Get with it. Get this record into Tower, Virgin, Wherehouse, Walmart, etc. Get this guy onto Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, SNL. Quit messing with the disposable, embarassing teen pop; invest in a record that will sell year after year. Remember why you got into this business in the first place!