In Brief
* * * Crowded House, “Together Alone,” Capitol. This is Beatlesque music, in the sense that it’s full of invention, craft, insight into how troubled relationships really work, and also because it’s far too diverse to be properly summed up with a tag like “Beatlesque.” A rhyme from one of Neil Finn’s songs describes the experience best: “Color is its own reward, the chiming of a perfect chord, let’s go jumping overboard.” Yes, let’s.
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