Magic - Bruce Springsteen

This is the first Bruce Springsteen album with the E Street Band in the last five years but the standard of the songs is not as good as "The Rising", the precedent one. The opening song "Radio Nowhere" is probably the best track of the album with the classic Springsteen rock-sound his fans love. However from here the road is downhill with "You'll be coming down" that reminds me of "Lucky Town" followed by "Living in the Future", a very annoying song with lyrics that don't make much sense. "Gipsy Biker" is instead a good song, more "solid" both for the music (I like the harmonica) and the lyrics. ...

Bruce Springsteen's sixteenth album, "Magic", was released in October 2007. As a huge fan of "The Boss", I was expecting a solid album - if anyone knows how to churn out albums of a consistently high quality, it's Bruce - but even I was not expecting an album quite as good as this. Lead single and opening track "Radio Nowhere" is, perhaps surprisingly, one of the album's weakest tracks. Vaguely reminiscent of his earlier "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" in its criticism of our increasingly vapid media, it's a solid rock song that will undoubtedly have your head bopping, but it's not outstanding - although the chorus ...