Released 03/02/12Once again answering the clarion call of current times, "Wrecking Ball" looks at working class America post 2008. They are the same persons that populated his earlier work albeit 40 years later. Then they were concerned with parents, street racing, relationships and facing the future. Well, the future is here and, at this juncture, is rather bleak. Is the answer rallying together for change or striking out in anger? It's all in the make-up of this album.
The music? With very little E-Street band involvement it still contains the essence of their sound. This album does take chances, it's certainly not a straight ahead E-Street album. Some of the production has been criticized as a mistaken try to remain "current". That does Bruce very little credit. He's turned into a master in the studio and this one reflects that. There's a lot of variety in the music and the particular sound of each track stands on it's own. As with any artist's efforts, some parts do work better than others,but the effort is sincere.
The bottom line is how often you come back to a particular album. I seem to be going back to this one quite a bit. Will that last? Time will tell. My past Springsteen listening seems to center on "Tracks", "The Promise (Darkness outtakes)" and the early stuff up to, and including, "Born in the USA". "The Rising" is admittedly a great album, but when is the last time you listened to it?
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