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A.V. Club
Letter To You is an absolute triumph, one that can take its place alongside the best albums of Springsteen’s long career
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NME
The Boss' triumphant 20th album features three songs he wrote in his 20s, the rest grappling with age and mortality. It's also his best work in 20 years
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The Independent
The Boss’s 20th studio album comes as close to the electricity of live music as it gets
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The Irish Times
They play “live” in that each track is recorded as a band with minimal overdubs. This creates a real pulsating energy, driven by Max Weinberg’s dramatic propulsive drumming and the guitars of Steve Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren and Springsteen himself
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All Music
It's an album where Springsteen reckons with the weight of the past, how its ghosts are still readily apparent in the present, an album where the veteran singer/songwriter is keenly aware he has more road in his rearview mirror than he does on the highway ahead of him
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Paste Magazine
Singer’s latest album ranks among his best, most collaborative work
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God Is In The TV
In a year where almost no-one expected things to turn out the way they have, a good, solid Bruce Springsteen album is a cause for joy. The fact that this is an excellent album even by Springsteen’s own high standards is reason for celebration
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8.3
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Consequence Of Sound
The Boss and E Street Band deliver a vital set of songs devoted to aging, death, and legacy
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The Observer
An album about fallen comrades sees the E Street Band deliver the distilled elixir of their best stadium-filling form
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8.0
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XS Noize
As well as being the first time since Born in the U.S.A. that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded live in the studio; Letter To You is “the only album where it’s the entire band playing at one time with all the vocals and everything completely live”
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Vinyl Chapters
Embellished with saxophone, guitar riffs and a compelling blend of past and present, Letter To You shows the strength you can find in heartache. And it also shows that Bruce Springsteen isn’t slowing down any time soon
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Exclaim
Letter to You may well be Springsteen addressing his most significant bandmates and his audience with love, but it may as well be something he wrote and sent ahead to 2020
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American Songwriter
With Letter to You, the Boss wants us to know that when our time ends, we don’t just fade away. In the hearts and memories of those who love us, we can live forever
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Clash
As a whole, ‘Letter To You’ is a wonderfully warm experience, perhaps Springsteen’s most human for some time
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Rolling Stone
Recorded in just a few days with the E Street Band, this is one of the most personal statements of Springsteen’s career
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The FT
The singer’s new album with the E Street Band is a reflective work that wields magnificent power
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Gigwise
The Boss looks inward on his brilliant and vulnerable new record
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musicOMH
The first album since perhaps Born In The USA where a truly collaborative spirit has fuelled the creative process
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7.5
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Beats Per Minute
Letter To You may well Springsteen’s best work since 87’s Tunnel of Love
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The Line Of Best Fit
Letter to You doesn’t try to fight fire with fire so much as give us all of the water we need to help us extinguish the blaze raging rampant and orange outside our windows
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Pitchfork
Riding the E Street Band’s familiar uplift, Springsteen grapples with the complexities of nostalgia, a tension that animates his writing and manifests in the sound of the music itself
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Spectrum Culture
It's too early to tell if Letter to You will stand as a landmark Springsteen release, but Springsteen knows exactly what he wants to say and who can help him say it
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Slant Magazine
The album has all the familiar hallmarks of the E Street Band’s signature sound
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No Ripcord
With his trusted E-Street Band by his side, Springsteen sounds confident that he’s laid the myth to rest; and that his legacy will be one of who Springsteen was, not what he wrote about
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Albumism
This long dip in the middle of the record make it difficult to see Letter To You matching up to Springsteen’s other great works
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The Arts Desk
America produces voices that are rooted in the country’s ever-renewing sense of promise
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The Guardian
Letter to You is not an album to snare new listeners, compounded by the fact that it contains a lot of good songs but no spectacular breakout hit
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