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''Intriguer'' is the sixth studio album by
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, released on 11 June 2010. It is the band's follow-up to the group's 2007 reunion album ''
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''. The first single for the album, " Saturday Sun", was released to radio and the video clip released to the internet in April 2010.


Album history

Following the release of Crowded House's reunion album ''
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'' in 2007,
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announced that the band would re-enter the studio to record a follow-up album which would feature the current lineup, consisting of Finn on vocals, guitars and piano, fellow founding member
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on bass guitar,
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on guitars and keyboards, and then-newcomer
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on drums. The band performed a small concert in The Leigh Sawmill, north of Auckland, in February 2008 and featured a few songs which were later to be recorded by the band for the next album. In 2009, the band re-entered the studio and recorded demo tracks of 11 songs, some of which Finn had written during the tour around the previous album. For these recordings, the group enlisted producer
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for the first time, who then continued to produce the whole album in Finn's studio,
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in
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. The band hired various guest musicians throughout the recording process, including multi-instrumentalist
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on violin,
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on vocals and guitars, James Milne on additional vocals, and Finn's wife Sharon and son,
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contribute backing vocals and guitars, respectively.


Critical reception

The album was very well received by professional critics and the public. On
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it reached 75/100, as generally favourable album and 9.3 out of 10 from listeners. Most enthusiastic was
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which pointed that "it goes shoulder to shoulder with their best materials" and gave it 5 stars. Also very positive was
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which found that "Finn's durable songcraft never fails to enthrall."
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was also very positive with statement "Crowded House have always sounded in parts like the later solo career
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should have had. Despite the anthems being on a tight leash, repeated listens reveal this to be one of their best albums."
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gave it B+ saying that "the House head honcho proved he was still a classy, clever tunesmith, and does so again here on ''Intriguer''."
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gave it 4 stars with many praises such as "''Intriguer'' will have to stand or fall on its own merits. If there is any justice in the world it will be a bestseller."
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Guide put ''Intriguer'' in its annual list of best rock albums in 2010. ''Intriguer'' was on many lists of best albums in 2010 of various music magazines and sites including Popdose, "Popblerd", "Qromag", "Blurt-online", and others. In "Popmatters" which gave 7 out of 10 stars at first, ''Intriguer'' finished on "slipped discs" of 2010, great albums which didn't make top 70 of the year. Among mixed critics was
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, which gave 3 stars and stated that "who could've predicted, then, that ''Intriguer'' would be his best work in nearly two decades?"
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also gave 3 stars, saying that the album "suffers slightly from Crowded House's signature weakness: a tendency to retreat into tastefulness." Ally Carnwath from ''
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'' also gave it 3 stars, saying "the trouble with the album's more conventionally crafted pop songs is that they invariably sound dull."


Track listings

* "Eyes Grow Heavy" was released as a downloadable bonus track from Getmusic. "Turn it Around" was released as a downloadable bonus track from iTunes.


Bonus DVD (deluxe edition)

# "Either Side of the World" (Upstairs at Home) # "Amsterdam" (Upstairs at Home) # "Saturday Sun" (Upstairs at Home) # "Twice If You're Lucky" (Upstairs at Home) # "Elephants" (Upstairs at Home) # "Falling Dove" (Upstairs at Home) # "Isolation" (Upstairs at Home) # "Archer's Arrows" (Upstairs at Home) # "Either Side of the World" (Live at the Auckland Town Hall) # "Isolation" (Live at the Auckland Town Hall) # "Saturday Sun" (Official Video) – USA/Canada issue substitutes "Don't Dream It's Over" for "Isolation"


2016 Deluxe Edition


Disc 1 (Original album)


Disc 2 (Unreleased and rare material)

* *Previously released.


Personnel


Crowded House

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Neil Finn Neil Mullane Finn (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician who is known for being a member of Crowded House, Split Enz (which he co-fronted with brother Tim), and Fleetwood Mac. Finn rose to prominence in the late ...
: vocals, guitars, piano *
Nick Seymour Nicholas More Seymour (born 9 December 1958) is an Australian musician and record producer. He is the founding bass guitarist and a mainstay of the rock group Crowded House, and is the younger brother of Mark Seymour, singer-songwriter-guitar ...
: bass *
Mark Hart Mark Hart (born July 2, 1953), is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for being a member of both Supertramp (1986–1988, 1996–2002, 2015–present) and Crowded House (1993–1996, 2007–2019). As well as being a group mem ...
: piano, keyboards, electric guitar *
Matt Sherrod Matthew Sherrod (born 11 July 1968) is an American drummer, musician, and a former member of the band Crowded House. Sherrod first became known as a musician playing drums for rock artist Beck. In 2007, following the 2005 death of Crowded House ...
: drums


Additional musicians

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Don McGlashan Donald McGlashan (born 18 July 1959) is a New Zealand composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist who Is best known for membership in the bands Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, and The Mutton Birds, before going solo. He has also composed for ci ...
: mandolin, tambourine, acoustic and electric guitar and
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*Sharon Finn: vocals *
Liam Finn Liam Mullane Finn (born 24 September 1983) is a New Zealand singer and musician. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the son of musicians Sharon and Neil Finn. In 2020, he joined his father's band, Crowded ...
: electric guitar on ''Isolation'' *
Lisa Germano Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Her album '' Geek the Girl'' (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by ''Spin'' magazine. She began her career as a violinist ...
: violin on ''Archer's Arrows'' and ''Even If'' *
Jon Brion Jon Brion is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has ...
: guitar and vocals on ''Twice If You're Lucky'' *Jim Scott: low piano, tambourine, shaker, sleighbell *Michael McClintock: violin on ''Even If'' *Greg Leisz: pedal steel on ''Elephants''


Charts


References

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