It's sober stuff, and yet it doesn't feel that way: The Gaslight Anthem plays with the ripping punk-rock intensity associated with Warped Tour bands. The '59 Sound was recorded in two weeks, and much of it captures the moment when the renegade in his late teen years bumps into the responsibilities of the adult world for the first time. When Brian Fallon promises ‘ Come July we’ll ride the ferris wheel, go round and round and round/And if you never let me go, well. But when The Gaslight Anthem goes there, it somehow resonates differently. The Backseat (The ’59 Sound, 2008) Arguably the definitive Gaslight Anthem er, anthem, the fabulously punchy The Backseat tells of young dreamers gunning their vehicle west towards ’ Californian lights ’. That's an overly familiar, and thoroughly exhausted, Springsteen subject.
He found himself writing sprawling, detail-rich songs that romanticize the end of adolescence.
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Singer-songwriter Brian Fallon grew up five blocks from E Street, and says that until this album, he did everything possible to avoid sounding too much like Springsteen.Įventually, Fallon realized that he couldn't shake The Boss, so he stopped trying. Despite playing a series of shows in to honor the 10th anniversary of their seminal sophomore album, The ’59 Sound, The Gaslight Anthem never indicated that they. The quartet has just issued a new album, called The '59 Sound, filled with narratives that recall, and in several cases refer directly to, Springsteen's early works. Most try to minimize the influence, but not The Gaslight Anthem. Rock 'n' roll bands from New Jersey toil in the long and inescapable shadow of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Gaslight Anthem's new album, The '59 Sound, is filled with narratives that recall and refer directly to Bruce Springsteen's early works.
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