Produced by Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips), â¶Dizzy Heights' is the third solo album by Neil Finn following 1998's Try Whistling This and 2001's One Nil.
Finn did not set out on his third solo album with a theme in mind. But by the time he came to call it after another track on the record, "Dizzy Heights", it had become inescapable. "It crept up on me. I started noticing it in lots of places. You start off with a number of different threads and angles and demos, and they dictate the terms of the record. It's only in the course of the process that you maybe get a feeling there's a type of song emerging, or an atmosphere.
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