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Bruce Springsteen's current album, Magic, is his first with the E Street Band since 2001's The Rising. Magic is lyrically a extra unlike record (something not manifest unless you take the time to sift via the Boss's proclivity to mumble), and naturally a more elusive one. While The Rising focused on a characteristic moment in American history (September 11th, is), Magic jumps bring ... to an endthe area. At times, Bruce is blatantly political (such as on the track "Last to Die"), and by other times more subtle, but nonetheless acerbic (such as on the title track and "Long Walk Home," perhaps the album's best overall song). As always, Bruce works best balancing his cynicism with powerful, relatable middle-class themes.
Bruce and the E Street Band seldom fail to deliver, and they live up to the promise on their latest release. The album ends with a touching terminal track to Bruce's longtime friend Terry McGovern [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and amidst the argue that's sure to ensue of the value of politics secret in the lyrics of this album, it's pleasing that Bruce ends on a private memorandum.
Despite what one thinks of Bruce's political bent, they'd have a hard time finding flaws with his award of songwriting. He conversions easily from hard rock ("Radio Nowhere") to popup ("Living in the Future") to slower tempo [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], about folk mathematics (again, the title alley). The majority of the record settles in to a mid-tempo pace. This works fine, and likened to numerous of Bruce's quieter albums (Nebraska and Devils and Dust come apt mind), it does sound a lot bouncier.
Bottom Line: 4 and a half out of 5 stars
Should've been B-Sides: Your Own Worst Enemy
While there ambition forever be a few excellent tracks on whichever work, the important thing approximately this Bruce album is the lack of duds. Excluding "Your Own Worst Enemy," every song on this album is well supposed and well executed (even "Your Own Worst Enemy" ends on the amusing melodious "Your flag it flew so high / It drifted into the sky").
Lyrically, the maximum disappointing anthem is the leadoff track and first single, "Radio Nowhere." The melody itself pulses and remains unrelenting to the finish line, but Bruce falls behind aboard easy opportunities to increase an anthemic quality to the melody that namely entirely unnecessary. Repetitions of "I equitable wanna listen some tempo" bucket in comparison to the create up of "Hiding on the backstreets" from the song "Backstreets," off Bruce's art album Born to Run.
Despite the fact that this may not be Springsteen's hardest album (Darkness on the Edge of Town), neither his catchiest (Born in the it is most definitely an E Street Band album. Nowhere is this more evident than on "Living in the Future," Magic's peppiest song, and a track that should be loosened for a single. Clarence Clemmons swirls in and out of songs as he always does, punctuating some of the albums best songs with saxophone solos. This works out perfectly on the aforementioned "Living in the Future." Also [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the underrated fusion of Danny Federici on apparatus and Roy Bittan can be heard adding flourishes to the background of the songs to make them that many fuller.
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Best Tracks: Long Walk Home, Living in the Future, Terry's Song