The 19th Bruce Springsteen album has been heralded as a dramatic break from tradition. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars album artworkThis is clearly a departure, although there’s a sense in which it’s entirely in keeping with Springsteen’s approach. Certainly, there’s a real and rather affecting love evident in the way Springsteen channels the sound on Western Stars. Like Nebraska or The Ghost of Tom Joad, it offers a selection of bleak narratives and lingering pen-portraits, and, like Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad, it seems a product of its era. Normal service may well be resumed in due course, but Western Stars is powerful enough to make you wish Bruce Springsteen would take more stylistic detours in the future.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2019 10:52 UTC