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- Summary: The 20th full-length studio release for the rock artist was recorded over five days with the E Street Band and producer Ron Aniello.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 25
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Mixed: 1 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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Oct 22, 2020The live recording of this record really helps deliver that communal feeling. They feel so present and close that listeners might feel they’re violating the pandemic rules.
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Oct 15, 2020His new record Letter To You is an absolute triumph, one that can take its place alongside the best albums of Springsteen’s long career.
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Oct 22, 2020Springsteen gives us the E Street Band at its rawest. The songs deal with loss and perseverance, but the arrangements make them sound like anthems.
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Oct 20, 2020Letter To You provides both a moving thematic adjunct to Springsteen On Broadway and a timely and welcome burst of the sheer euphoria that only the E Street Band can inject. It also, importantly, demonstrates the band’s unacknowledged flexibility.
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MojoOct 28, 2020Ultimately, what redeems Letter To You from notions of idealised nostalgia is the rigour of its performances, particularly those of Springsteen himself, who for the second successive album is in the singing form of his life. [Dec 2020, p.78]
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Oct 22, 2020On Letter to You, Springsteen is at his rawest and most reflective. ... Letter to You may well be Springsteen addressing his most significant bandmates and his audience with love, but it may as well be something he wrote and sent ahead to 2020.
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Oct 22, 2020From its title down, it’s clearly intended as a message to longstanding Springsteen fans, the sound of an artist hunkering down in troubled times. That also represents a scaling down of ambition, but judged by its own criteria, Letter to You is a success.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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Nov 16, 2020
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Oct 31, 2020
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Oct 23, 2020Man is this good. Didn't even realize how much I wanted to hear Springsteen release this kind of record. Awesome.
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Dec 3, 2020
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Oct 25, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 23, 2020Absolutely loving this. Not a bad track, burnin train, ghosts, if i were a thief. My favorite track changes with every listen.
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Nov 6, 2020do y'all seriously eat this up? um... y'all will eat up anything this man releases and for what...
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