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CD: Bruce Springsteen,Darkness On The Edge Of Town Amazon.co.uk The Roy Orbison drama, the Wall of Sound and the soul energy ofBorn to Run are still present here but there’s a darkness now, too, and it’s more than around the edges. The stories have more at risk, for one thing, a definite sense of the pain that can accompany the hardest choices. These real-world consequences are felt most strikingly in Bruce Springsteen’s newly prominent guitar–his solos are ugly and twisted but he sounds all the stronger for it. Recorded for everyone who has “a notion … it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive”,Darkness on the Edge of Town might just be Springsteen’s greatest achievement.–David Cantwell