You can hear snippets from “Easy Money,” “Wrecking Ball,” “Shackled and Drawn,” “Jack of All Trades,” and Clarence’s sax in “Land of Hope and Dreams.”
And these extracts fuel hopes that this album will be much better than what I assumed after the relase of the pop-single We Take Care Of Our Own.

New Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball to be released March 5, 2012.

Listened to the new single We Take Care Of YOu about 5 times now and I’ve to admit that I’m very disappointed.

It’s like there’s nothing left to say for Springsteen anymore and he hides this behind a wall of pop sounds.

It’s not a harbinger of a wild album or rock record which was promsied by Landau in the recent Rolling Stone article. It’s a pop song with lots of strings, glockenspiel and the pop voice he’d discovered for the last few albums.
And what about the sources who described the album as having unexpected textures - loops and electronic percussion? The drum intro and the percussions give you flashbacks to the worst 1980s top ten hits.

And finaly this is not an angry song. If you want angry songs go back to Darkness On The Edge Of Town or Nebraska: the lyrics where angry and disillusioned and the music boosted the message - be it the rock of Darkness or the folk of Nebraska.
This doesn’t mean that I want the old times back, but lyrics which tell a story and are note covered by sweet pop sounds. Music has to be the media but not the narrative.

I’m sorry to say but yesterdays high expections are gone now :-(
He’s still an unbelievable live act but he doesn’t know how to produce great albums anymore.