Album review: Neil Finn, Dizzy Heights

Neil Finn has enjoyed an industrious career as a musician. As well as fronting Split Enz and Crowded House, he has released two albums with his brother Tim as The Finn Brothers, and one with his wife Sharon as Pajama Club.

Dizzy Heights is his third album as a solo artist. Produced by Dave Fridmann in New York, it features Finn’s wife Sharon on bass and his sons Liam and Elroy on guitar and drums respectively. If that makes it sounds like a cosy family project, the kind of album an artist makes in middle age, you’d be right: at 55, Finn is well-settled, and Dizzy Heights is just what you’d expect from the man who penned chart hits such as ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ and ‘Weather With You’.

Impressions, the first track, channels the spirit of John Lennon at his most introspective, with Finn singing: “Got no plans for the future/Got to make good impressions”. It’s pleasant enough, if not exactly ground-breakiing.