MAGIC - Spingsteen
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MAGIC - Spingsteen
Magic is the fifteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on September 25, 2007, by Columbia Records. It was his first with the E Street Band since The Rising in 2002. The album ranked number two on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. -wikipedia
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Pitchfork
a surprisingly complex album that hides its disillusionment deep within its music, mingling it with a weary optimism that has not diminished with age
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Rolling Stone
The arrangements, the performances and Brendan O’Brien’s wall-of-surf production are mined with echoes and near-direct quotes of classic records
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Paste Magazine
Magic offers what Bruce Springsteen does best: a handful of honest, hard-working tracks about life and how we live it.
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Slant Magazine
The lyrics on Magic are great. In fact, they’re some of Springsteen’s greatest
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AV Club
This is a big, slick arena-rock record—almost anachronistically so.
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BBC
It’s a full-throated blast of rock ‘n’ roll that only suffers in its hugeness
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No Depression
Magic may be the closest approximation to an old-school, big-noise Bruce album in ages
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NME
But scratch the surface and it seems like Iraq’n’roll is what keeps him awake at night
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All Music
just a bit too overthought -- hardly enough to make for a bad record, but one that isn't quite grabbing, even if it is helped immeasurably by the E Street Band in old pro mode
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Pop Matters
with his mates in the studio, Springsteen remarkably captures some of that elusive lightning while teaching us about the ties that bind all over again
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Vintage Rock
Guitarist Steven Van Zandt remarked that this time his “Boss” was sticking with songs of a more commercial appeal, and it serves him well.
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Entertainment Weekly
three and a half decades into his career, Bruce Springsteen is back in the masterpiece business
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Phil's Vinyl Addiction
On the one hand, Magic is clearly a solid, well-performed rock album that is superior to most other efforts in this area, and I would therefore recommend it. On the other, there are some ways in which this album does not live up to the high expectations and lacks a coherency in theme when compared to The Rising.
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Spin
The real mystery behind Magic, then, isn’t whether the Boss still has some tricks up his sleeve, but why he doesn’t indulge in them more often.
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RobertXGillis
layering makes MAGIC arguably one of Springsteen’s best efforts, and what amazes me is that it is both familiar AND fresh
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The Guardian
Magic is a record aimed squarely at radio, stadiums, open car windows and the solar plexus of guys who don't notice passing musical fashion. Magic sounds big. And it sounds great.
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Uncut
an attempt to recover the indomitable youthful fury of the former, astutely tempered by the older, wiser, sadder resignation of the latter
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