: Working on a Dream, the dream pop of the E Street Light Orchestra. It divides the people of the Boss. 
Ryan Adams, 34, a few discreet album and no masterpiece behind, warned fans from his blog: "I leave the music, I could return, but I'm not quite sure. " Bruce Springsteen, 60 years around the corner, quite a few albums and several masterpieces, published his twenty-fourth disk without breath but here it is, to gamble on that land that is his more than forty years.
This is not a comparison between the Boss and the young Ryan (not Bryan), who is credited with writing good songs and you have all tried, but all roads to make an album like a true Boss: It's a way to explain how difficult it is, in the music world, to remain competitive for long. A
want to bring in two large, comparable to Springsteen for artistic stature, you can highlight how Bob Dylan Neil Young have behind scary oscillations. For thirty years at least, when it comes to studio albums to their alternating signals of joy, the thumbs down, enthusiasm and indifference to everything happening now is normal. Normality, perhaps, two artists who have prepared for everything, jumping between electronic digressions (the Young's "Trans") and colorless album cover (Bob, in the days of "Self Portrait" and "Dylan"), not Bruce Springsteen, who like fellow keeps his legend alive performing on stages around the world almost constantly but unlike their ends always in the spotlight when it publishes new songs.
Here in Italy, even on time, for twenty years, first on the bestseller list of the albums. If
Springsteen still leaves the sign to each publication is a result of his extraordinary ability to remain in the race, the center of the artistic competition that many of his illustrious contemporaries have long since left.
When hand again seemed to sink in the archives, offering his audience in thirty years of "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" (1978) remastered edition of one of its most beautiful discs (enhanced by a concert and a documentary already registered with Patti Smith to tell her to "Because The Night") , came the announcement of a new disc, new half, in hindsight, because it explicitly presented as an appendix of "Magic."
Let's face it now: "Working On A Dream" is too complex to end immediately dismissed as something of the appendix. It is not a masterpiece, but a hard cross from an informed basis and a fair dose of respect.
course, present a comic book instead of a Cover and leave with a piece of eight minutes is at least risky. Cover meet the artist and his staff, who approved the same photograph used for the unforgettable "Born To Run" and for months just reflecting on the graphics of "Darkness." The piece does not open a process a few times Springsteen has flirted or exceeded that size ("Incident On 57th Street", "New York City Serenade," "Jungleland," "Backstreets," "Drive All Night": let's talk!) And even "Stairway To Heaven" or "Hotel California" last time, but "Outlaw Pete" is a composition rock, roots and genuine enough not to suspect lucrative intentions. Could be resolved before but has the merit of completed without eyes have fallen on the clock, and then seems to coincide with the intentions of two Springsteen above all suspicion: that of pre-"Greetings," he wrote stories about guns and ill repute ("He's Guilty," "The Ballad Of Jesse James") and that of the "Seeger Sessions", which has again embraced the world of outlaws ("John Henry"). Paid heavily, but the weather and the stage, Springsteen will decide whether to take her on tour, will make them good.
Bruce is not one from vertical drops. Has puzzled but never shocked. He has published records that could be more concise (two in 1992, from which he could draw a potentially beautiful, to put my hand on fire, an album that would make it even more if it had been played by E Street Band and musicians from talent required to walk the line) but never really betrayed the expectations of his fans.
Today there is to be followed in its evolution and its legitimate curiosity about what they did before, so there is to be explored with affection and interest in the way that Springsteen is free to afford.
"Thunder Road" on hard he finds it more? Patience, it was understood for some time. If you disconnect from the axis of the stage, where everything continues to work beautifully, the man of "Born To Run" find another dimension. It is less land, remove the handbrake to the imagination. It becomes more poetic. Osa. Dreams. This is the key to enjoy serenity in the sixteenth studio album by a man who at thirty years after his first album is still being researched and heartfelt discussions.
Fresh Golden Globe (for "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke in the film, bonus track, but more inspired point of collection), Bruce appears under a sky of stars that seem to glitter. The jacket took it from the wardrobe that not even use more Little Steven. Among the hair, a blond reflex unnatural. Behind the moon. Okay, we're in limbo between dream and magic and yet it might be more restrained in the story.
Nevertheless, we picked up and closely monitored, especially in the de-luxe version, which is larger, the subject of "Working On A Dream" slightly dampens the distrust of the mixture of color cover and the style chosen to illustrate this journey into the pop of a consolidated boss of rock.
It hits us as we have said the opening track, and eight minutes to take it or leave it body almost a stranger, however - and this will require much more detailed analysis provided for the rest of the songs (coming soon on this blog) - runs through the life of more than that of early Springsteen sung gunfighter here. Step by step "Outlaw Pete" arrive "My Lucky Day" (average height, from the fifth disc of "Tracks") and "Working On A Dream" (cool pro-Obama-style whistling Roy Orbison turned to look at those 60 - Kennedy, Pete Seeger and Martin Luther King - never returned to America), and the fact that they seem second-hand, or that has been offered to the public in several ways before the official release, softens a bit 'our curiosity.
Again, the time will be honest and allow the two songs from the album that finally reabsorbed home after being fast and improbable individual online (but then why call them single, are now fleeting appearances by the network, electronic advance without heart nor cover ).
E 'when it comes to "Queen Of The Supermarket" - pace classical piano and glockenspiel, tenderness by E Street Band for a long and complex voice processing - that are on the field, with the engine warmed up disk, all the elements that divides the people Springsteen. This opens a new world not to easy compromise between a strong flavor rock (Tom Petty markedly to that of "What Love Can Do", with Byrds-style vocals that appear elsewhere) and a risky
pop pastiche with the compass that steers towards the surf of California quite often crossing certain marcatissime orchestrations that have always been the prerogative of the sixties groups (this is the real reference of this twenty-first century that Springsteen played to dive into memories).
Another explanation is that unlike "The Rising", which oozed loss and grief, this paper presents a majority of songs that invite you to accept life for what it is, celebrating it with a smile. It is a happy record dwells on love. Politics is a distant echo, is lapped, perhaps deliberately muted.
The mixture created by Brendan O'Brien (who seems to have spent one cycle) is exciting but can stun. The attentive ear there scoverà the Beau Brummels, the Left Banke, the Kinks and the Monkees. The bank of suspicious and less reflective advance the suspicion that this time, starting from the Beach Boys as it happened in "Girls In Their Summer Clothes," has taken the drift that leads to Jeff Lynne. In "This Life" (and beyond) is the E Street Light Orchestra? No problem: it is beautiful, that is prologue to Bacharach an unpredictable charm that embrace reciprocated with charm, not least because the phrase "in light of the blackness then a million stars" ("dark, then the light of millions of stars') well explains the cover, the author's mood, the way disk and expectations of the world after Obama.
interference string guitar to the Beatles and dreaming that they also appear in "Kingdom Of Days" (pompous but lovable and convincing at least the "This Life") and "Surprise, Surprise" (which at one point mentions "You Got It "Orbison: all back then, even Lynne). Freed from the obligation of having to offer a concept or a sound check unit, the author flits, and often with vocal approach ondivagante vaguely tenor, one of the "individual" in his adolescence and Bruce among the many who have entertained us in recent times. As a result we gather in the elegant and composed of "Life Itself", the jersey devil all blues of "Good Eye" country of optimism, "Tomorrow Never Knows." Even when caressing memories in beautiful, acoustic and painful "The Last Carnival" (two tightrope walkers, two wrists that at some point are no longer two separate friends for life from death: Danny Federici and Bruce) Springsteen is an all normal in all, caught a few inches below expectations (but two above the average of his fellow peers).
The error would always be special to want, ask them to return it to us and to him the same age that all we had at the time of The River.
That is something no musician can do.
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