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Mar 21, 2017Smiles may be hard to come by on We All Want The Same Things, but flat-out songwriting excellence is in plentiful supply.
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Apr 4, 2017Finn has created a great album here, horn-drenched and hazy in its instrumentation, precise, prescient and poetic in its words.
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Mar 21, 2017There’s still no substitute for the adrenalizing power of the Hold Steady at its best, but the nuance of Finn’s solo songwriting, and the subtler sense of musical adventurism he has come to embrace on his own work, make these songs essential, too.
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Dec 11, 2017With We All Want the Same Things, Finn has crafted some of the strongest and most moving music of his career, and if his tales aren't often upbeat, they have the ring of truth and will stay in your memory long after the album is over.
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MagnetApr 26, 2017We All Want The Sam Thing is the best of his three solo albums because it lets the music serves the stories. [No. 141, p.55]
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Apr 20, 2017It's the flow of his manic, free-stream poetry, the layered contexts he shoulders us through, and the crisply matched instrumental tide pool ebbing and revealing, which amass into something exceeding their parts.
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Mar 23, 2017A deeply personal work from a master storyteller.
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Mar 20, 2017This is perhaps not as immediate a record as Faith In The Future, the narratives of which were foregrounded in the song titles a little more, but it stands up to repeated listening just as well, and confirms his status as one of American music’s best storytellers, in the same mould as Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed.
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UncutMar 14, 2017Finn maintains his novelist's eye for detail throughout. [Apr 2017, p.28]
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Mar 23, 2017While the best moments of his previous two solo albums felt like little more than stripped-back versions of solid Hold Steady songs, We All Want the Same Things is more subtle and strange.
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Mar 24, 2017We All Want The Same Things finds resonant common ground in the idea that shared imperfections bring people together.
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Mar 14, 2017We All Want the Same Things is cut from the same cloth as everything Finn's done before as an artist, but it isn't quite fair to call it more of the same. The way an album feels matters, and this one feels comfortable--and self-possessed in a way that his other solo albums aren't.
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