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- Summary: Produced with Ron Aniello, Springsteen’s 17th studio album was inspired by the impact of the financial crisis and is the last album with Clarence Clemons, who passed away in June 2011.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll
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Positive: 30 out of 41
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Mixed: 10 out of 41
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Negative: 1 out of 41
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Mar 6, 2012The most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made.
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UncutMar 12, 2012He's never sounded quite so bitter as he does on Wrecking Ball.
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Apr 26, 2012Wrecking Ball spins Springsteen's most focused work since 2002's The Rising and most defiant and hooky since 1984's Born in the U.S.A.
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Feb 29, 2012Springsteen's emerged with some good material for his new album.
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Mar 6, 2012While accordions, fiddles, acoustic guitars, and human voices are prominent--befitting the songs' back porch country, folk, and blues vibe--canned clap tracks, woozy keyboards, and whirring sound effects sometimes sit uncomfortably alongside them.
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Mar 6, 2012Wrecking Ball feels cumbersome and top heavy, Springsteen sacrificing impassioned rage in favor of explaining his intentions too clearly.
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Mar 6, 2012As a post-Occupy album, it's less ripped-from-the-headlines and more cribbed-from-older-and-better-ideas.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 27
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Mixed: 4 out of 27
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Negative: 3 out of 27
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