Hard Believer

Urban Urban, bluesy, and alive, the album presents ten brand new songs, including the mighty ''Shakespeare'', a tale of young love gone tragically sour as the mood darkens from acoustic to guttural rock; the spiky yet delicate ''Looking Too Closely'', riding an irresistible piano-and-guitar groove; ''Green And The Blue'', on which a vulnerable Greenall meditates on the constants in life that see you through tough tough times; ''Two Days Later'', a deeply personal lament and one of only two songs on the record that start and remain down-tempo; and the breathtaking ''Pilgrim'', the latest collaboration with songwriter Blair Mackichan, co-writer of ''This Is The Thing'' from Fink's 2007 Distance and Time, and ''Honesty'' from 2011's Perfect Darkness.