High Hopes (Album)

High Hopes is the eighteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It was released on January 14, 2014 on Columbia Records. High Hopes contains no new titles, all the songs on the disc are elderly and remain among the productions of the previous albums, or for years among Springsteen's live program. The topics that sings Springsteen are not new, the songs revolve as well as in the older productions to the " multiform decline of the American working class."

Title list

Springsteen sings in American Skin (41 Shots ) of the Amadou Diallo and controversial case in Harry 's Place over a small gangsters from New York City. The song The Wall came after a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC and Walter Cichon is dedicated to one of Springsteen's musical heroes who fell in the Vietnam War.

Review

Tobias Rapp heard the album for the magazine Der Spiegel and felt it was "different" than the newer Springsteen albums, it was " free, airy, joyful ." High Hopes is a " good record " Rapp judges concluded. January Kühnemund by the ZEIT found the plates it "unbearable" and certifies Springsteen " cheesy gripes ", this time backed by Tom Morello ' "Board of stubby bloke solos ". The plate was " surprisingly like a cross-country vacation " and keep bein ' oily moaning ". Clearly impressed showed Jens Bauszus from the focus, the Springsteen a " substantial form " certified and High Hopes seen as a continuation of the series " impressive late works ". Particularly impressed Bauszus is of American Skin (41 Shots ). The song was a " beguiling " and " graceful " manifesto that count to the best that Springsteen had recorded in recent years.