Radio New Zealand
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Bruce Springsteen's Letter To You
The director of Western Stars helms this Bruce Springsteen documentary, capturing the legend's thoughts on love and loss while recording with the E Street Band.
202090 minsUSA
DocumentaryMusic
- Director:
- Thom Zimny
- Writer:
- Bruce Springsteen
- Cast:
- Bruce SpringsteenRoy BittanNils LofgrenPatti Scialfa
Bruce Springsteen's Letter To You / Reviews
Slant Magazine
Springsteen deserves credit for resisting the crowd-pleasing tug of this kind of album for so long that it feels like a warm homecoming rather than a retread. It’s only when Springsteen leans on the nostalgia with explicitly backward-facing lyrics that the album gets a bit too self-aware.
Full reviewRolling Stone
Springsteen sounds at peace. Although the LP doesn’t sport the same youthful urgency as the recordings he cut in the Seventies and Eighties — there’s no “Badlands” or “Cover Me” here — you can hear how the anger and depression of his tougher times and his many split personalities delivered him to stability, and the most fascinating parts of Letter to You are when he comes out of the shadows to admit that he realizes it, too.
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A.V. Club
His new record Letter To You is an absolute triumph, one that can take its place alongside the best albums of Springsteen’s long career.
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The Telegraph
Its beauty lies in the intuitive simpatico of the playing, with different elements rising to the surface at just the right moment. It used to take them months in the studio to achieve this blend. Now these old road warriors can conjure it in a single take.
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