Say It Is So
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| Studio album by Tim Finn | ||||
| Released | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 42:21 | |||
| Label | Sonny's Pop Records | |||
| Producer | Jay Joyce | |||
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| EW | B+ |
Say It Is So is the fifth solo album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn.
After the release of Before & After Finn was left without a record company but with a lot of inspiration. He met producer Jay Joyce in Nashville, TN in 1998 with whom he worked. No record company was interested in the album so he released it independently. Websites credit this album as having a 2000 release, but the first run of albums released through the Frenz of the Enz fanclub have a 1999 stamp, making this the original year of release.
All tracks written by Tim Finn, except where noted.
In the track Some Dumb Reason there is the line "feeding the gods". This became the title of Finn's next album (and continues a long-standing continuity theme of Split Enz, Crowded House and Neil and Tim Finn albums using phrases from their other songs).
Four music videos exist for the album songs:
The videos for 'Death of a Popular Song', 'Underwater Mountain', and 'Big Wave Rider' were made by Matt Heath and Chris Stapp of the New Zealand band Deja Voodo and comedy show Back of the Y.
Reception was positive, with reviewers noting the more singer-songwriter sound of his work suiting his newly gravelly vocals.
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