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ALBUM REVIEW

New sounds, familiar themes on Springsteen’s ‘Wrecking Ball’

By Sarah Rodman

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 05, 2012

“Wrecking Ball,’’ Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, out tomorrow, may not have been recorded with the E Street Band - although it does include two appearances from late E Street saxophonist Clarence Clemons - but that doesn’t mean the veteran rocker is going it alone. A phalanx of back-up singers, horn players, steel guitarists, drummers and percussionists, and friends (like Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine) contribute to Springsteen’s many-layered, genre-blurring, and often melancholy vision.

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