Minnesota in early February is the perfect place and time for some intelligent and effervescent pop to quicken our winter-slogged minds and brighten our outlooks across the snow-covered prairie. The chance to hear ex-Split Enz frontman (and Crowded House cohort) Tim Finn spin flax into gold while reprising the magical realism of his latest solo disc, Imaginary Kingdom, fills that prescription better than anything else out there this month. At his best—and much of Imaginary Kingdom qualifies—Finn blends Paul McCartney’s delightful sense of naïveté with Ray Davies’s trenchant eye for social detail. Folk-pop thrush Alice Peacock (a White Bear Lake native, donchaknow) has enough insight and honesty in her mainstream-safe approach to set the stage as a strong opening act.
Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-338-2674.
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