Gravity Stairs (LP)

Crowded House's eighth studio album.

It's the act of climbing those figurative "gravity stairs," inspired by a heavy stone staircase near where Neil Finn vacations that he likens to his mindset as a creator. "It's a metaphor for getting a little older and becoming aware of your own mortality, your own physicality," Finn says. "Things are getting a little harder, and there's more determination needed to get to the top, but there's still the same compulsion to climb them.