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Monday, September 3, 2012

Album Review: Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (2012)


The Boss is well known for writing material dealing with the everyday concerns of the working class folk, and his latest offering also attacks the institutes held collectively responsible by many in society for today’s economic woes.  Wrecking Ball stands out for its blatantly angry moments of accusative frustration, which is distinctly uncharacteristic for a Springsteen album.  Fusing the acoustic sobriety of Devils and Dust with melodic poignancy of the likes of Born In The U.S.A,  The record follows a sinusoidal pattern of emotionally uplifting low grade power ballads, polarized with more subtle and mellow acoustic numbers.  A little too repetitive lyrics wise in a number of places for my liking, it still stands out as a notable effort from the Boss, an artist who is held in high esteem, and quite rightly so.  “We Take Care of Our Own”, “Easy Money”, “Rocky Ground” and the outrageously Irish “American Land” represent the finest from Springsteen’s latest work.  A-


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