“In five stellar LPs as the word-spluttering frontman for the Hold Steady, Craig Finn proved that nobody can match his ear for the way American losers talk. And in a Finn song, they’re usually talking themselves into their next doomed move. Cut with a country-rock pickup band, his first solo album is full of bleakly […]”
“Dialing the music back and the intensity down, the Hold Steady frontman's first solo album feels like the culmination of the softened edges and blunted urgency of his band's more recent trajectory.”
