We All Want the Same Things by Craig Finn

We All Want the Same Things, Craig Finn's third solo album and the follow-up to Faith in the Future, came out on Partisan on March 24, 2017. The Hold Steady frontman, and Lifter Puller's before that, has always been as much a short-story writer as a rock singer, and on his own records his characters get the spotlight to themselves.

The title comes from a line in "God in Chicago", and Finn explained it as a bit of gallows humor for an ugly political moment that also happens to hold up: whatever divides people, the basic things they want and need tend to line up. That idea hums underneath the whole record, delivered by a songwriter Pitchfork once called a born storyteller.

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