Split Enz – Conflicting Emotions (VG/VG+) – LP, AU 1983

Conflicting Emotions is an LP by Split Enz from 1983 released on the Mushroom label.

About this album

Conflicting Emotions shows Split Enz sharpening their art-pop instincts into sleek, emotionally charged new wave. Released in 1983, the album arrived after the band’s biggest commercial breakthrough and finds Tim Finn and Neil Finn balancing eccentricity with direct, finely crafted songwriting. The record’s standout single Message To My Girl became one of the group’s best-loved songs, while the album as a whole helped confirm Split Enz as one of the most distinctive pop bands of the era. Its mix of bright hooks, offbeat detail and restless invention makes it a key late-period statement in their catalogue.