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Chrome translation (some correction by me), dont know it that's better:

 

First impression:

Slightly boring.

 

The fame of Bruce Springsteen's secret backcatalog is huge.

There are whispers that there is a vault somewhere with unreleased material, including the full and pre-recorded albums that have never been made public.

If true is hard to say. As for Springsteen's potential and musical riches are all so hush-hush that taxes seem guarded by the dragon Smaug.

But ever since the box "Tracks" was released, the extensive collection volume with unreleased songs here and there was unlikely high class, it has tisslats and paw lats and "twerkats" about a sequel, a "Tracks 2".

And the new album "High hopes" is in some ways an archival review.Springsteen got the idea when he was going through his best unreleased songs from the last ten years. Several are remakes of old songs and covers and live favorites, including "High hopes", "American Skin (41 Shots)" and "Just like fire would" of Australian garage rock band The Saints .

In some tracks haunting old E Street Band members who Clarence Clemons , who died in 2011, Danny Federici , who died in 2008. The sound often dresses in the same mixed fabric of urban rock and acoustic protest songs that the music on the latest album "Wrecking Ball". The only real "news" is guitarist Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine .

Morello replaced Steve Van Zandt - Miami Steve was busy with the filming of the TV show "Lily Hammer" - when the E Street Band last toured Australia. Springsteen calls Tom Morello for a muse and catalyst on "High hopes".

Tom felt not so much as you might think. And his guitar arts is often a blunt instrument which either destroys or adds energy.

The ballad "The wall", which Springsteen sings about an old friend who went missing in the Vietnam War, is at first surreptitiously listening disc heirloom. And the rest?

Springsteen usually make records where the songs are linked by a large and serious, and, more recently, political theme. From that standpoint, "High hopes" sidetracked.

It feels more like a small souvenir to sell in the upcoming tour of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand next year.

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