Album Rating: 4.5

Blankets: 4/5

Magic Marker: 4/5

A Bathtub in the Kitchen: 5/5

Indications: 4/5

Grant at Galena: 4.5/5

Something To Hope For: 4.5/5

Carmen Isn’t Coming In Today: 5/5

Holyoke: 4.5/5

Her With The Blues: 4.5/5

Anne Marie & Shane: 4/5



So pretty similar really - degrees of excellence all the way through this tracklist



anatelier - have you listened to the previous album much yet?

Album Rating: 5.0

Just spinning now for the first time. It’s great but doesn’t hit the same highs as this one, the stories don’t come across quite as well

Album Rating: 4.5

The tracklist peaks around the same point though strangely.



‘God in Chicago’ and the two tracks after it are best



‘G in C’ will still be my top Finn track in the decade best lists, mainly because I listened to it before I got to this album

Album Rating: 4.0

Carmen....just destroys me.

Album Rating: 3.5

Ordinary songs about ordinary people with ordinary problems. Brilliantly straightforward, and quite charming in its own right. Yeah, this is actually pretty great

On Magic Marker the protagonist meets up with a man and does something kinda "strange", which is also referred to as a "trick", for $16,000. What act are we to infer here?

Album Rating: 4.0

"Her With the Blues" came on on shuffle in my 2019 playlist today and absolutely wrecked me. Wilco's "One and a Half Stars" had just played previously and already had me welling up and within the first few seconds of "Her With the Blues" I was just done for. Even worse, I was walking back from class in public. Really don't know what it was...maybe the brisk mid-afternoon air, or the light, maybe a release of some pent-up emotions about all the change and uncertainty in my life right now... All I know is that moments like that are why I love music so much. I may never have that same response to the song again but that moment alone cements it as a 5/5 song for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

'Her With the Blues' is supreme happy/sad I feel you Boney

Album Rating: 4.0

This section, I mean just...ouch:

You close your eyes

As you ride along Riverside

Daring the world

To knock out your teeth

You read about restaurants

You see what the films are like

You try out the books you should

The music and TV shows

And you get the feeling

That you're missing on something

The people at parties

The things you don't know...

Album Rating: 4.5

woke up this morning with the urge to jam this hard



what happened with the avg man

Album Rating: 4.5

sput happened and it ain't pretty

Album Rating: 4.5

hard to believe this has been out almost a year already

Album Rating: 4.5

"What act are we to infer here?"



It's unsaid, but something shady, like Saul Goodman / Slipping Jimmy stuff I guess

Album Rating: 5.0

Stoked to hear this. I’ve been jamming The Hold Steady all weekend and can’t get enough

Album Rating: 4.5

You’ll love it I’m sure



I’d do a rating sweep but someone up there is prob right. Love Carmen most tho.

Album Rating: 4.5

What hold steady should I jam first?

Album Rating: 4.5

I can’t keep saying thank you Colton

Album Rating: 4.5

Those horns on indications oh yes thank you

Album Rating: 5.0

Blankets was gorgeous. If that’s not even one of the better tracks I’m gonna be floored. Also, he is so on point live (the Murmrr Theatre performance of that song and Magic Marker are incredible)!

Album Rating: 4.5

There are only top tier stuff here. Enjoy responsibly.