I Need a New War

"I Need a New War" is the fourth studio album by Craig Finn. It was released on Partisan Records on April 26, 2019. The title comes from the song "Grant at Galena". Following 2015's Faith in the Future and 2017's We All Want the Same Things, I Need a New War completes what Finn has called a trilogy. Each of which tells the stories and observations of what Finn calls “unremarkable people.” “They aren’t going to morph into superheroes. They aren’t going to save the day, but they’re trying. They have their own mundane struggles, but struggles nonetheless.” At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".