Going Strong(er)
MORTEN AASTAD | Oslo Norway | 11/17/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Tim Finn holds a special place for me. He is the man behind one of my absolute favorite bands, Split Enz. Allthough his solo work often were marred in my ears by sounding too much like the 80's, even for the time. But there were some really some great songs over the years, like Fraction Too Much Friction and Underwater Mountain.
His last two albums were really good, with an edge I haven't heard from Tim since the Split Enz days. After those came a Finn Brothers album verging on the divine if that's an apropriate word. And now, Tim, being inspired and more prolific than his brother it seems, is here again with Imaginary Kingdom.
I would have given this album 5 stars, if not for 2 songs that I just can't feign interest in. Apart from that, this is just such a great pop album. There's this feeling of it being a married couple, who have been around for a while, and now have fallen in love all over, and walk hand in hand on the beach and can't get enough of eachother. Then there's the pacific wibe on some of the tracks, like catnip for a Norwegian stuck in a dark and cold November Oslo.
I wish he could have brought Split Enz with him to Scandinavia for a continuation of the re-union tour, but this album goes a long way to soothe the pain!
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