Craig Finn Announces Solo Album Faith in the Future, Shares “Newmyer’s Roof”

Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is back with another solo album to follow-up his 2012 effort Clear Heart Full Eyes. This one’s called Faith in the Future and it’s due on September 11 via Partisan. Check out the album track “Newmyer’s Roof” below via NPR.

The album is available to pre-order via Pledge Music. Every pre-order comes with an instant download of the Newmyer’s Roof EP, which features the lead single and four non-album B-sides.

Other pre-order bundles include several opportunities to hang with Finn over drinks, book club meetings, jogging, poker, record shopping, fantasy football, “an inspiring walk,” house shows, and a Twins game. You could also grab some handwritten lyrics, a personalized voicemail message, a custom mix CD, a signed test pressing, and much more. 

Faith in the Future was recorded in the Woodstock, N.Y. studio IsOkOn. It was produced by Josh Kaufman. Finn said of the album in a statement:

“I had both the music and lyrics to these songs, though they changed a great deal in the studio. There’s a grandness to The Hold Steady that tends to make me write about bigger, more dramatic themes. Some of these songs are more mundane, with minor slices of life that wouldn’t best be supported by the hugeness of a rock group. It wasn’t always about what we wanted to put in, but what should we leave out? We didn’t want to sermonize or moralize. Just let these songs, and characters, be.”

Read our feature “Massive Night: Ten Years of the Hold Steady”.

Watch the Hold Steady perform “Constructive Summer” on Pitchfork.tv’s “Don’t Look Down”:

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