Willy Vlautin has always been a masterful storyteller. He's spent over 20 years doing it as Richmond Fontaine's songwriter and more recently as a novelist, but it's time to close the door on the former.

The alt-country outfit’s 10th album is also their final one, filled with weather-beaten ruminations on burned-out characters, marital infidelity and dive bar tales and underpinned by a loose, blue collar, alt-country soundtrack.

There are occasional dashes of theatrics (as heard on A Night in the City), but more often than not, these songs shuffle and slouch with an understated ease.

True, it's nothing you haven't heard from Fontaine before – but it's a fine bookend to a well-honed career. richmondfontaine.com