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Passing on the hyper-literate approach that The Hold Steady have built a small empire upon, New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem deliver a similarly earnest brand of rawk , succeeding where others have tried and failed to properly integrate vintage Bruce Springsteen into an updated version of a standard American sound. Keeping the subject matter staggeringly simple and affecting, and backing it up with shimmering guitars drenched in reverb and a solid rhythm section, The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound (picked recently by emusic.com as the album of the year) is deserving of the multitudes of [...]

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