Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Faithless’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

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(Note: This is the third post in a series in which I will review the seven albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)

Faithless is something you don’t see every day: A soundtrack for a film that never got made.

I don’t mean that it never got released. It never got made in the first place.

In the liner notes to Tracks II: The Lost Albums, Springsteen does not divulge details about the film except to call it “a spiritual Western film that was preparing to be made around 2004.” He says he wrote the music over a two-week period and, in the words of critic Erik Flannigan, “worked with musical textures and themes that matched the…