We All Want the Same Things
by Craig Finn
  • Record Label: Partisan
  • Release Date: Mar 24, 2017
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. molecular
    Mar 29, 2017
    8
    This is the singer songwriter side of Craig Finn and he has achieved his best solo album with this one. Try and listen to "God In Chicago" and not get a lump in your throat.
  2. clinton79
    May 19, 2017
    9
    The first listen through is a little rough and disappointing. For some reason it felt off from his last solo album but then again I said the same thing about that album compared to "Clear Eyes". After listening through probably 50 times by now, it is by far his best effort. There is so much going on, such a huge leap in writing and musicianship and such diverse songs. His storytelling isThe first listen through is a little rough and disappointing. For some reason it felt off from his last solo album but then again I said the same thing about that album compared to "Clear Eyes". After listening through probably 50 times by now, it is by far his best effort. There is so much going on, such a huge leap in writing and musicianship and such diverse songs. His storytelling is still top notch he's just added to it.

    Because of spotify and other streaming music sites it's safe to say people don't buy albums that much any more but this is an album I went out and bought on CD it's that good    … Expand

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. AllMusic
    Dec 11, 2017
    80
    With 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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  2. Magnet
    Apr 26, 2017
    80
    We 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]
  3. Under The Radar
    Apr 20, 2017
    80
    It'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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