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Track List
01) Blankets
02) Magic Marker
03) A Bathtub in the Kitchen
04) Indications
05) Grant at Galena
06) Something to Hope For
07) Carmen Isn't Coming in Today
08) Holyoke
09) Her With the Blues
10) Anne Marie & Shane
01) Blankets
02) Magic Marker
03) A Bathtub in the Kitchen
04) Indications
05) Grant at Galena
06) Something to Hope For
07) Carmen Isn't Coming in Today
08) Holyoke
09) Her With the Blues
10) Anne Marie & Shane
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2019
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"I Need a New War" is the fourth studio album by Craig Finn. It was released on Partisan Records on April 26, 2019.
The title comes from the song "Grant at Galena". Following 2015's Faith in the Future and 2017's We All Want the Same Things, I Need a New War completes what Finn has called a trilogy. Each of which tells the stories and observations of what Finn calls “unremarkable people.”
“They aren’t going to morph into superheroes. They aren’t going to save the day, but they’re trying. They have their own mundane struggles, but struggles nonetheless.”
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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"I've been keeping up with payments, man / I've been managing the pain," Craig Finn offers at a warm mid-point on I Need a New War. The song, "Something to Hope For," backs it up with upbeat horn stabs and backing vocals; it's about as overtly joyful as moments get on Finn's fourth solo album, which showcases the sharp eye for small human triumphs and dramas that Finn has honed over the years — how contemporary struggles are often survived rather than defeated, managed rather than forgotten.
In other words, the other songs aren't exactly as happy, but they're no less compelling. As singer for the Hold Steady, Finn's always given novelistic details to bombastic rock band scores, but his solo output has been accumulating nuance; the album plays like a skilfully constructed short story collection, unified in voice and rich in instrumentation, but diverse in tone.
The urgent guitar drive of opener "Blankets" gives way to "Magic Marker"'s weary portrait of someone who got "pistol whipped in Portland ... had trouble with my numbers for some time." "Grant at Galena" lends the album its title, in a bleaker story of debt and drifting, while "Anne Marie & Shane" lets a building score of instrumentation unpack the breakdown of a friend's relationship from a distance. But regardless of the song or sentiment, Finn's skill for detail never wavers. In that, I Need A New War ranks among his best.
Reviewed by Paul Blinov for exclaim.ca.
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"I Need a New War" is the fourth studio album by Craig Finn. It was released on Partisan Records on April 26, 2019.
The title comes from the song "Grant at Galena". Following 2015's Faith in the Future and 2017's We All Want the Same Things, I Need a New War completes what Finn has called a trilogy. Each of which tells the stories and observations of what Finn calls “unremarkable people.”
“They aren’t going to morph into superheroes. They aren’t going to save the day, but they’re trying. They have their own mundane struggles, but struggles nonetheless.”
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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"I've been keeping up with payments, man / I've been managing the pain," Craig Finn offers at a warm mid-point on I Need a New War. The song, "Something to Hope For," backs it up with upbeat horn stabs and backing vocals; it's about as overtly joyful as moments get on Finn's fourth solo album, which showcases the sharp eye for small human triumphs and dramas that Finn has honed over the years — how contemporary struggles are often survived rather than defeated, managed rather than forgotten.
In other words, the other songs aren't exactly as happy, but they're no less compelling. As singer for the Hold Steady, Finn's always given novelistic details to bombastic rock band scores, but his solo output has been accumulating nuance; the album plays like a skilfully constructed short story collection, unified in voice and rich in instrumentation, but diverse in tone.
The urgent guitar drive of opener "Blankets" gives way to "Magic Marker"'s weary portrait of someone who got "pistol whipped in Portland ... had trouble with my numbers for some time." "Grant at Galena" lends the album its title, in a bleaker story of debt and drifting, while "Anne Marie & Shane" lets a building score of instrumentation unpack the breakdown of a friend's relationship from a distance. But regardless of the song or sentiment, Finn's skill for detail never wavers. In that, I Need A New War ranks among his best.
Reviewed by Paul Blinov for exclaim.ca.
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