“Bruce Springsteen’s first album of original songs with the E Street Band since he lost the vote for change in 2004 starts with guitars — a wall of angry, droning treble that, for the three minutes of "Radio Nowhere," is blessedly louder than the oceanic static of bent truths, partisan reporting and general bullshit that […]”
“The Boss returns, with the E Street Band in tow, for a surprisingly complex album that hides its disillusionment deep within its music, mingling it with a weary optimism that has not diminished with age.”