Needle Mythology reissue a special expanded album edition of Finn, the album released by
New Zealand’s most celebrated musical siblings Tim and Neil Finn to acclaim both from
critics and long-time fans who had followed the pair’s work since their time in together in
Split Enz. This is the first time Finn has received a vinyl release.

Released in close collaboration with Tim and Neil, the newly-expanded Finn comes with an
entire album The Finn Demos, which gathers together ten songs from 1989’s legendary
Murchison St sessions, remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Convening at
Neil’s new Melbourne apartment with a view to making an album together, Tim and Neil
embarked on an intensely productive period, writing several songs that would briefly result
in Tim joining Crowded House for the resulting Woodface album.

Assisted by the late Paul Hester on drums, the demos capture a host of songs that would go
on to be played in arenas around the world in their newborn state: ‘It’s Only Natural’,
‘Catherine Wheels’, ‘Weather With You’, featuring a whole extra verse and the previously
unreleased ‘Four Stepping in 3/4 Time’.

For this release, long-time fan and collaborator on Neil’s 7 Worlds Collide project, Ed
O’Brien (Radiohead) contributed liner notes, hymning the album’s “heavy” beauty and its
“elemental energy.” Featuring brand new artwork designed by Needle Mythology’s James
Gosling, the expanded Finn features newly-unearthed images of Tim and Neil taken by
Darryl Ward during the sessions for the album. For this release, Tim and Neil have also
shared the “listening notes” submitted by the brothers’ parents – something they would do
for every song their sons wrote.

For Finn, Tim and Neil enlisted the services of Tchad Blake, whose “feel”-based approach
brought out the best in the brothers, who played every instrument on the record. Writing
about the record for Mojo at the time, David Hepworth characterised Finn as a “warm and
loose record” that hardcore fans would undoubtedly “adore”.

Originally released on Parlophone Records, Finn spawned an unlikely top 30 hit, the
mesmerising semi-improvised psych-rock fan favourite ‘Suffer Never’.
The expanded double album edition of Finn has been cut at Abbey Road by Miles Showell
and pressed on 180g vinyl at The Vinyl Factory.

Of this release, Needle Mythology co-founder Pete Paphides says, “As a life-long fan of the
Finn brothers’ music in all its incarnations, I’m grateful that Tim and Neil have given us the
opportunity to re-present their work to the world in a manner that befits the magic of these
sessions. The experience of hearing these songs emerge from the speakers at Abbey Road
is one I’ll never forget.”