The Frames singer in even quieter mode than his Swell Season duo work. Centred by the restrained and heartaching Springsteen cover title track – with added Eddie Vedder harmonising groan and The E Street Band's Jake Clemons underpinning sax – it just seems to have a feeling of being a little too aware of paying its respects rather than being something of its own. Elsewhere, particularly the not-quite-soaring Renata, Hansard comfortably defaults to his Irish-accented soul that obviously owes more natural debt to Van Morrison than the New Jersey boardwalk.
