The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten (2012)

The U.S. state of New Jersey has given birth to some of the most important icons of a variety of musical styles. From Patti Smith to Bruce Springsteen, to most of the members of Bon Jovi, The Fugees or Skid Row, and it seems that a new band is sitting in limbo in NJ musicians (and American).
The Gaslight Anthem, the band led by the considered "successor" of fellow Bruce Springsteen, Brian Fallon, presents his first album released by a "major"-and fourth-band, Handwritten, an album that has not left indifferent anyone.
And its mix of punk, indie folk with touches of rock that hit and strong especially after his second feature, The '59 Sound, has generated an avalanche of critical acclaim that led to share stage-and Collaborate Live - with the aforementioned Bruce Springsteen American Idol or walk through the stages of the world's most important festivals, such as Reading Festival Rock Am Ring or German.
Just bring the needle to vinyl or hit play in our player, you realize that is before the consolidation of a new star.
The roar of the first issue of "Handwritten" the single '45 ', sounds powerful, with an introduction and a cry that inject pace into the veins of the listener as if the most deadly poison. Some choruses to be chanted, catchy ... simple but effective. '45 'Is basically and in each of its letters, commonly define as "great song."
In the second song jump, others chanted cries give way to the song that is named after the album: 'Handwritten'. A guitar riff but does not exhaust resulting form, with a broken voice and rough Fallon (who comes to remind the Boss), a cocktail that inevitably leads us to listen to the next track. And that's 'Here Comes My Man', with a basic rhythm battery of Benny Horowitz, without any complications, and a catchy "oh sha la la"-resource differently but always used correctly is present in almost all the tracks on the album, 'fully met.
The next turn is for 'Mulholland Drive', which begins with another guitar intro of Alex Rosamilia, which functions as a second voice, performing a single accompanying Fallon along almost the entire song. Solvent and Alex Levine's bass playing tellingly, 'Mulholland Drive' has a good combination between voice and melodic six string that is soft but intense.
Then the disc seems out some U.S. bases to punk, to the sound of a harmonica and a touch of gospel in the voice of Brian Fallon, not take away one iota of strength to all that we heard from the principle, introduce the subjects 'Keepsake', 'Too Much Blood' and 'Biloxi Parish'. In all, the "second voice" of the band, the six strings of Rosamilia, giving authoritarian shown incredible strength to the sum total of the group. Half the record is consumed and each song is like a brick in the wall, one by one are combined to provide an overall sense of the album, none seem disparate to the other. The next topic, 'Howl' is a ray of just two minutes, starting with the "hook" which has been mentioned as one of the key pieces of the voices of The Gaslight Anthem, a "Hey, Hey, Heeeey!" That , with a chorus following the game, downloading a force that counteracts the point of tranquility of the three previous issues.
In the final stretch of "Handwritten" find 'Desire', which continues the line of force of 'Howl' for, with a quick introduction, develop a theme which will lead rapidly to the two final issues, slow but impressive: 'Mae 'and' National Anthem '. The latter is a ballad that ends the album talking about love, life and God with a very soft string section supporting the arpeggios leaving Fallon's guitar.
In short, "Handwritten" is a high quality along with logic, that knows how to combine different types of smooth intensity ... an album that gives a glimmer of hope, the rock is not dead, rock can still hit hard and Gaslight Anthem is the example.