Springsteen is always best when it moved a little / and stirs it converts these feelings in words and music. So also here. The decline of the real estate bubble and the banking crash it processes a model here. He describes the people, the atmosphere and the land. Shows the anger, depression, melancholy, but backed his texts partially with such Irish-tinged Power music that you on the "death of my hometown" (Death to My Hometown) wants to dance the most. The United States is therefore not yet in the end, it's still force there and lust for life. So you as a listener accompanied his journey in the best songwriter mania by the US and is annoyed at the end of the CD really only about the fact that not much, much longer it will take. Conclusion: One of his best albums, a must for any fan, or very good starting point for who wish to be there.