Review: Craig Finn grounds his songwriting in smaller moments for his best solo LP yet, I Need a New War

Craig Finn has lived his life within portraits of others. No one captures the moment quite the way he does, balancing moments of sadness and warmth with painful care, as if he'd heard the tales of Nebraska and decided to spend a career digging even deeper. Characters in Finn's work tend to be caught in big moments: witnessing or partaking in crime, cheating or being cheated on, going on illicit road trips in the wake of a friend's death, or having their very belief systems thrown into question o...