Uhmmmmmm, this?
Or the best version of this I could find pre-release, anyway…pretty killer sound for live, guitar is incredibly clear….it’s the much-anticipated “Handwritten,” who cares?!
“Who else can say that about you, baby?
Who else can say that about you now?
Who else can take all your blood and your curses?
Nobody I’ve seen you hanging around.”
~Biloxi Parish
The Gaslight Anthem, Handwritten
This album is striking me really well, definitely a summer album. Too soon to tell if it surpasses “American Slang” but it does effectively tear my heart out. Same themes, music and mortality and near-fatal romance…while critiqued as repetitive, I wouldn’t expect or desire anything else than something this polished, melodic, impassioned.
“And to ease the loss of youth and the many, many years I missed you
Pages plead forgiveness, every word handwritten”
~Handwritten
The Gaslight Anthem, Handwritten
Sidenote: Getting a little tired of every-single-fucking-reviewer comparing TGA to Springsteen. Own. Band. Decades. Later. And E Street has sax. Do we HEAR any sax on this? No. Did E Street do double-time? No. Get. The. Fuck. Over it.
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