Clare Bowditch Talks About Fall At Your Feet

SYDNEY, AU. (EMI MUSIC AUSTRALIA) - It must have been Countdown who first brought Split Enz into my living-room. There they stood, this gaggle of oddly dressed men, repeating something about spending six months in a leaky boat. The whole fractured thing got to me; I was an instant fan, albeit a frightened and little one. I would not have wanted to be in that boat, even though I liked the sound of it when they sang the words. It must have stuck with me, because I spent much of my first year at art-school trying to cast a perfect miniature bronze boat, one that would never ever leak, no matter what. Sadly, nor would it float. Solace was found in repeat listens of 'Recurring Dream - The Very Best of Crowded House'. Worked a treat. Simply put, Finn songs get to me. I would have happily sung any one of them for this here compilation, yet 'Fall at Your Feet' stood out as a particularly masterful stream of naughtiness and pain and surrender, of tears raining and fingers blaming and feet being fallen upon. It stirs a kind of dark yet domestic yearning. I have no idea where this song takes place, only that it does so at night, that it is more 'bedroom' than 'kitchen', and that every time I hear it played on the radio, it quickly finds its way to my knees and my stomach.