Crowded House: Intriguer | CD review

(Mercury)Intriguer is a curious hybrid: at once, Crowded House's sixth album since Neil Finn formed the band 25 years ago, and their second since reforming, following the suicide of fellow founder member Paul Hester in 2005. You can sense its double identity as you listen: there are songs that bristle with ambition, with strange undercurrents and scuffed melodies; and then there are songs that plod amiably along, as comfortable as a fraying pair of slippers. No prizes for guessing which camp the...

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