Craig Finn announces new album and shares video for “Blankets”
I Need A New War arrives Friday, April 26 via Partisan Records. The third instalment of a trilogy – following 2015’s Faith In The Future and 2017’s We All Want The Same Things.
The new LP once again sees Finn expertly chronicling our complex, often confusing, modern era, drawing deeply felt character studies about regular people trying to respond to extraordinary times, attempting to find connection whilst wondering how to keep pace with a world moving faster than they are. The LP further finds Finn focusing his lens on New York City – his home for the last 18 years.
“Perhaps forward motion is everything,”says Finn. “The characters in the songs on this record, and the last two, are trying to keep up and keep their heads above water. They succeed or they don’t, but their stories are the tales of their attempts at pushing ahead. And so, with my own push forward, I feel lucky and excited to be sharing these songs and stories.”
I Need A New War was heralded last month with the first single, “Blankets,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services following its exclusive premiere via NPR, which wrote, “‘Blankets’ contains a lifetime within its four minutes. Things come together (‘We hung on for several summers’) and things fall apart [‘It got druggy and we crumbled’]. But for the narrator, no matter what’s transpired, some things remain [‘Still I haven’t never loved her’]. There’s a sensation of instability, but also a spirit of inevitability, and as with so much of what Finn weaves, there’s grace through it all.”
