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(21) Rick Springfield - Songs For The End Of The World (2012)

"Songs For The End Of The World" is the brand new studio album by one of music's most enduring legends, Rick Springfield. Rick Springfield has somehow found this little niche between modern rock, current pop and 80's MTV-era big chorus arena rock. The songs are infectious, the lyrics are intelligent and the production is top notch. This album never sounds like it's stuck in the 80s... but it's still accessible to any old Springfield fans that may not have heard anything that he's done in the past 20 years. And that's important. Rick is a damn good (and very underrated) songwriter, and his talent is what separates him from many of the other faces that once ruled MTV. Highlights on the new album include the vintage three-chord rock of "I Hate Myself," the anthemic "Our Ship's Sinking," the mid tempo ballad "You & Me," and the album opening rocker "Wide Awake." He´s purging himself of negativity, admitting "Love Screws Me Up," concerned that "Our Ship's Sinking," and pondering "My Last Heartbeat," scoring all this angst to thundering rhythms and heavy guitars. "Songs For The End Of The World songs", Sometimes all this aggression is released on rockers with sinewy power pop riffs or arena rockers but those are the exceptions to the rule because here, as it has been on every album he's made since roughly 1982, Springfield isn't about having fun. He is wrestling with big ideas and this time he's scored his mental bout with guitars so bombastic they feel throttling even when only a few acoustics are being strummed. Such sonic overkill fits the oversized emotions of Springfield's songs and even if the overall effect can be a little draining, song by song this is one of Springfield's strongest latter-day records, as the production matches the mood and the melodies are as muscular as the album's sound.

Track listing

01.  Wide Awake  (Bissonette, Springfield)  - 3:02 
02.  Our Ship's Sinking  (Bissonnette, Springfield)  - 3:23 
03.  I Hate Myself  (Bissonnette, Springfield)  - 2:40 
04.  You & Me  (Bissonette, Cohen, Springfield)  - 3:52 
05.  Gabriel  (Bernhardt, Bissonette, Carter, Springfield)  - 3:57 
06.  A Sign of Life  (Bissonette, Springfield  - 3:13 
07.  My Last Heartbeat  (Bissonette, Springfield  - 3:30 
08.  Joshua  (Bissonette, Springfield  - 2:59 
09.  Love Screws Me Up  (Bissonette, Springfield  - 2:53 
10.  I Found You  (Bissonette, Hartry, Springfield  - 3:16 
11.  Depravity  (Bissonette, Springfield)  - 3:34 
12.  One Way Street  (Bissonette, Springfield) - 3:53 

Release date:  October 9, 2012
Recorded at:  Henson Studios, Los Angeles, CA; The Black Lagoon, Malibu, CA.
Label:  UMe
Genre:  Pop, Rock
Length:  40:12
Producer:

Personnel
Rick Springfield - vocals, guitar
George Bernhardt - guitar
Matt Bissonette - keyboards, background vocals
Rodger Carter - drums
Ronnie Grinel - percussion
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