Gravity Stairs

2024 studio album by Crowded House
Gravity Stairs
The five members of Crowded House's faces drawn facing different directions in the style of the Beatles' Revolver cover artwork
Studio album by
Crowded House
Released31 May 2024 (2024-05-31)
Length40:40
Label
  • Lester
  • BMG Rights Management
Producer
  • Crowded House
  • Steven Schram
Crowded House chronology
Dreamers Are Waiting
(2021) 		Gravity Stairs
(2024)
Singles from Gravity Stairs
  1. "Oh Hi"
    Released: 8 February 2024
  2. "Teenage Summer"
    Released: 12 April 2024[1]

Gravity Stairs is the upcoming eighth studio album by Australian rock band Crowded House, scheduled for release 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.

Background

The band produced the album with Steven Schram,[2] with frontman Neil Finn stating that the band wanted to maintain a "dreamy quality" on the record yet be more "lyrically direct".[3] 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.[4] 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".[4] The cover art is a pastiche of the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.[5]

Track listing

Gravity Stairs track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Magic Piano"4:46
2."Teenage Summer"3:40
3."The Howl"3:26
4."All That I Can Ever Own"3:04
5."Oh Hi"2:59
6."Some Greater Plan (for Claire)"4:10
7."Black Water, White Circle"3:42
8."Blurry Grass"3:09
9."I Can't Keep Up with You"4:01
10."Thirsty"3:30
11."Night Song"4:12
Total length:40:40

References

  1. ^ "Crowded House Continue Album Rollout with 'Teenage Summer". Rolling Stone. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  2. ^ Mack, Emmy (16 February 2024). "Crowded House Announce Eighth Studio Album, Gravity Stairs". Music Feeds. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Crowded House's Neil Finn on New Album Gravity Stairs and Supporting Charity with "Oh Hi": Podcast". Consequence. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b Lochrie, Conor (16 February 2024). "Crowded House Announce Eighth Album Gravity Stairs". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  5. ^ Sinclair, Paul (15 February 2024). "Crowded House / Gravity Stairs". Super Deluxe Edition. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
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