The band's new You Can't Win (sense a theme?) continues to wallow in the dark corners of James' psyche, though "Just Don't Leave Town" raises the discourse from miserablism to ambivalence.
The decade that followed the band's 1996 breakup wasn't terribly kind: New Zealand-born singer Neil Finn's solo career didn't duplicate Crowded House's success, and former drummer Paul Hester committed suicide in 2005.