Grandiose return!

He is back! And how! Magic seems to be straight out of the 70s or early 80s and still makes no dusty impression The E Street Band kicks off as it would apply no tomorrow and as if 'Born to Run' was yesterday. The topics this time are less political, but rather again the stories of losers and small people who Bruce is best 'can'.

Radio Nowhere
A good opener, he is in search of 'rhythm', for life, communication.

You'll be comin down
The contrast between music and text is very sobering, a relationship song that should be listened to in the context of the next song.

Livin in the future
70s / 80s rock as a whole on the album, comes directly from the display case of the first Springsteen albums.

Your Own Worst Enemy
Again, vintage rock'n roll and melancholy lyrics, ballads like we have not heard since 'Darkness on the Edge of Town'. Conveniently, not overproduced like 'The Rising'

Gypsy Biker
Another powerful rock song about losers and escapism, performed with a lot of pressure. And Hallelujah! Sister Mary is also back on board, without them nothing at Bruce, and this time she also brings with Brother John. The old Catholicism you do not get too out of the bones, what?

Girls In Their Summer Clothes
A great melody, very impressionistic text that runs like a film in front of a. Fat sound!

I'll work for your love
Perhaps the most complete song on the album, a rocker with everything that goes with it. Lyrically an epiphany with a lot of Christian-Catholic imagery, without which it obviously does not go with him, but it is consistent. Geiler song!

Magic
The relatively modest title track makes with his somewhat mysterious soundscape and text to its name and disturbed ('bodies hanging in the trees').

Last to the
A song like a night, frenzied escape, and here undisguised death imagery and for Springsteen'sche conditions almost hermetic poetry.

Long Walk Home
The opposite of 'My hometown'. A song about alienation, and all the seemingly positive things that we can say the Father Springsteen, sound like bitter mockery against the backdrop of recent American history.

Devil's Arcade
The song falls out something that is more suited to 'Tom Joad' or 'Devils and Dust', but quite successful.

Overall a comeback (one can even talk about it? It sounds almost like a sacrilege.), Which had been so little expected. Very pleasantly also that one producer Brendan O'Brien has apparently put something on the chain. The sound is indeed bombastic as to good old Phil Spector times, but pasted a not so full as the ears still at 'The Rising'.
Kudos and respect!