{"id":31942,"date":"2022-01-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=31942"},"modified":"2022-01-18T05:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:29:50","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-hunter-of-invisible-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/roll-of-the-dice-hunter-of-invisible-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Hunter of Invisible Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I wrote [the title] down years ago, and I don\u2019t remember a lot about it except I said, ‘That\u2019s a nice title.’ I wrote it down and it sat there. Then I did more reading of other things. And I started to get into this sort of post-apocalyptic idea. The idea of these travelers in the wasteland, and what\u2019s the guy trying to do? He\u2019s trying to hold onto their humanness, their humanity in all of this ruin. That was the idea. That\u2019s who this guy is, the guy who is hunting out remnants of what makes the spirit. It was one of those songs that came together a certain way and I didn\u2019t think much about it when I wrote it. I put it away. Now it\u2019s probably one of my favorite things on the record. “<\/span><\/p>\n

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— Bruce Springsteen to Sean Sennett, Rolling Stone<\/em>, March 11, 2014<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only the inclusion of “American Skin (41 Shots)” keeps “Hunter of Invisible Game” from earning best song honors for\u00a0High Hopes,\u00a0<\/em>but it’s still one of Bruce’s best songs of the past twenty years.<\/p>\n

It’s definitely his most audacious.<\/p>\n

In its finest form, “Hunter of Invisible Game” is a ten-minute-plus opus, with more than five minutes of orchestral introduction and almost five minutes of waltz—<\/em>all serving as the soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic allegory for the decline of Western civilization served up as a short movie filmed at Fort Hancock at the Jersey Shore.<\/p>\n

It’s astonishing that it works at all, let alone as brilliantly as it does.<\/p>\n