Crowded House – Gravity Stairs (New Vinyl) (Cloudy Blue Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. Cloudy blue coloured vinyl. Gatefold jacket.

Gravity Stairs is the eighth studio album by Australian rock band Crowded House, released on 31 May 2024 through Lester Records and BMG Rights Management. It was preceded by the release of the lead single "Oh Hi" on 8 February 2024. The album received favourable reviews from critics.

The band produced the album with Steven Schram, with frontman Neil Finn stating that the band wanted to maintain a "dreamy quality" on the record yet be more "lyrically direct". Lead single "Oh Hi" was inspired by Finn's work for the nonprofit organisation So They Can, which builds schools in remote areas of Kenya and Tanzania. Finn named the album after a stone staircase near a place he vacations, which he compared to his mentality as a musician, calling the title a "metaphor for getting a little older and becoming aware of your own mortality, your own physicality" as there is "more determination needed to get to the top, but there's still the same compulsion to climb". The cover art is a pastiche of the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver drawn by Nick Seymour.

TRACKLIST:

A1        Magic Piano
A2        Life's Imitation
A3        The Howl
A4        All That I Can Ever Own
A5        Oh Hi
A6        Some Greater Plan (For Claire)
B1        Black Water, White Circle
B2        Blurry Grass
B3        I Can't Keep Up With You
B4        Thirsty
B5        Night Song