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Sep 11, 2015While the songs here aren’t as instantly stick-in-your-head catchy as much of The Hold Steady’s catalog, they have a subtler staying power of their own.
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Sep 24, 2015The arrangements trump Finn's 2011 solo debut, upscaling that album's roots rock with choral backdrops and horn charts that recall the Van Morrison gestures of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. It's a good call for a literary songwriter who deserves, and earns, a broad canvas.
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Sep 11, 2015Faith In The Future may lack the life-affirming joie de vivre that The Hold Steady can invoke at their best, but if we’re to hear no more from them, there’s enough here to reaffirm faith in Finn’s future at least.
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Sep 10, 2015Finn’s second solo album is packed with songs rich in street intelligence and wry humor.
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Sep 9, 2015Finn was able to dial the swagger back for Faith In The Future and replace it with nuance, subtlety; sonically, it allows him room to breathe, to let new characters and stories thrive in softer moments.
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Q MagazineSep 4, 2015Faith In The Future continues this rich work [of short story narrative in song], but with a new feel of quiet sobriety. [Oct 2015, p.107]
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Sep 4, 2015Finn is still as sharp as ever with his details and as striking as ever with his lyrical gambits.
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MojoSep 4, 2015A more nuanced approach than generally prevails on his records with The Hold Steady. [Oct 2015, p.90]
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Sep 10, 2015Finn may be past recording the desperation and hopes of youth, but Faith in the Future shows he's more than capable of finding beauty, hope, and meaning in the desperation of adulthood too.
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Sep 9, 2015Finn has purposely toned down the density of his lyrics to deliver something a little more grounded, a little more human in ways that involve resurrections of only the metaphorical (definitely not the literal) kind.
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Sep 11, 2015Despite the unknown future and the ever shaky present, Finn’s adept and poetic lyrics along with some challenging music ensure there are some dark thrills on this perilous ride.
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Sep 11, 2015At its best, Faith in the Future is a compelling and suitably individual study of the Darkness on the Edge of Some Other Town, where Finn has plenty of stories to share.
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UncutSep 4, 2015The best of Faith In The Future is among the best of Finn. [Oct 2015, p.75]
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Sep 8, 2015Faith in the Future is a character-driven record, even if it doesn’t restore Finn to the heights of his mid-2000s heyday.