Craig Finn will release his second solo album, Faith in the Future, on September 11 via Partisan Records. The first tune on the album, “Newmyer’s Roof,” is now streaming on NPR.

The album, which was produced by the Yellowbirds’ Josh Kaufman, was recorded in Woodstock, NY and can be pre-ordered now which will also include a free EP with four non-album b-sides.

On the album, Finn said, “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.”

Recently at Finn’s live performances, he has been joined by drummer Joe Russo along with Kaufman and Jon Shaw of Wolf! and Cass McCombs.