NEIL AND LIAM FINN Lightsleeper (Inertia) Later this year there will be a slew of releases tied to the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles self-titled album, aka The White Album (and just quietly it will offer some neat little gems as well as bulk). It was a massive seller in the USA and a touchstone then and ever since, an album which could be as confounding as it was pleasing, but most of all a summation of the myriad – not always complementary but nonetheless we

Shocked by Neil Finn joining Fleetwood Mac (touring version) along with The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell, as the Lindsey Buckinghams you have when you don’t have Lindsey Buckingham? You shouldn’t be, and not only because, as he says here, "I don't know anyone on this planet who is better on their own as a musician than in the company of other good musicians." The adventurous and sometimes wilfully different approach of Finn was locked in more than 20 years ago when his solo w

NEIL FINN Out Of Silence (EMI) There is something perverse yet appropriately Neil Finn-like about this new album, whose circumstances of birth are integral to its “story” as much as its construction. Out Of Silence was created in full public view, its rehearsal, preparations and final four-hour recording screened on the web over successive Fridays in July. It was made in a studio filled with musicians, family (who are all seemingly musicians) singers, friends, technicians and