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- Summary: The first full-length studio release from The Gaslight Anthem since 2014's Get Hurt was produced by Peter Katis and features a guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen.
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- Record Label: Thirty Tigers
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Classic Rock MagazineNov 14, 2023Bare-chested canyon rock is present and correct, but so too is much introspection, melancholia, hurt and hope. [Dec 2023, p.74]
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Oct 27, 2023‘History Books’ picks up exactly where the band left off, but with a renewed wind in their sails. Big guitars, anthemic singalongs and bruised and bloodied ballads are in no short supply, while Fallon’s existential lyricism reveals a renewed nuance to his songwriting.
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Oct 24, 2023But for all the rueful, wistful, middle-aged preoccupations of History Books, its two most emblematic tracks, "Little Fires" and "Positive Charge", catch The Gaslight Anthem at their most glorious and furious. [Dec 2023, p.30]
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Nov 6, 2023’History Books’ is an album that personifies The Gaslight Anthem’s magic all over again.
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Oct 24, 2023This isn’t an album to convert the naysayers, but for the already initiated, prepare yourself to once more sing with your heroes, 33 rounds per minute.
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Oct 26, 2023The tone on History Books is less frenetic and more reflective. It’s the work of a band that has arguably outgrown the fiery intensity of youth without losing the passion that made the Gaslight Anthem so compelling in the first place.
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MojoOct 24, 2023Variously evoking a gnarlier early R.E.M., The Hold Steady, and, yes, Springsteen, other songs here occasionally suffer from over-telegraphed choruses, but Fallon's fervour and gift for an apposite metaphor - "I'm a weatherman watching the skies, trying to read you" - are evident. [Nov 2023, p.86]