From its bright, brittle production to its tossed-off postage stamp cover art, Working on a Dream is in every respect a companion piece to Magic, an wedding wedding wedding album that's merely a set of songs, both sprawling in addition to deliberately small, songs that don't necessarily tackle whichever one major theme but the whole tote up up to a portrait of their time. Magic chronicled the dog days of Bush where Working on a Dream is designed what a keynote to the Obama age, released just a week with the inauguration of the U.S.'s 44th source of power in addition to not coincidentally containing not a little optimism within its 13 tracks. This sense of hope is a tonic to the despair that crept into the margins of Magic but it's easy to posit Working on a Dream what manufactured goods positivity, which isn't exactly true: a hangover from W lingers, most vividly in the broken spirit of "The Wrestler," in addition to Bruce mourning departed E Street Band member Danny Federici with "The...