, however, doesn’t sound as if Fallon is chasing anything. Instead, it’s a snapshot — compact, concise, and satisfying at only 32 minutes — of an artist at peace with both settling into middle age and making a new beginning. At times spare and haunting, the LP is more often grand and cinematic, the result of Fallon and his producer Peter Katis studying the dynamic production technique of Daniel Lanois.
,” Fallon says. “There’s a difference between being rock-loud, like the Who, and this U2 thing, or I’d call it the Daniel Lanois thing, because it’s on a lot of other records he’s worked on. You can even find it inFallon also drew inspiration from an artist who is nowhere near middle age: the 28-year-old Kentucky country singer Tyler Childers. Concerned thatwas too brief at only eight tracks, he had an epiphany while listening to Childers’ equally lean latest album.
“In my previous work, I’d take these broad strokes about the past or the future,” he says. Gaslight Anthem songs were frequently about old busted dreams or great escapes never to come. “I didn’t want to do that here. The day-to-day is where your living is getting done, so let’s focus on that.” The sepia-toned murder ballad “Vincent” is the closest that Fallon, who’s earned comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, comes to any “Jungleland” story-song. It has Bruce-like images of carnivals and the tilt-a-whirl, along with complex characters like “Jolene,” who hates the Dolly Parton song that inspired her name, and the doomed “Vincent,” a serial abuser. Tellingly, the song is set in South Texas, not South Jersey, a result of Fallon’s friendship with the Texas songwriter Ryan Bingham.
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