Review: Jack Antonoff's Bleachers album leans on The Boss

How’s this for a flex from Jack Antonoff

“Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night,” Bleachers (RCA Records) How's this for a flex from Jack Antonoff? Get no less than Bruce Springsteen to show up on your new solo album. For background vocals. The Boss helps the multi-instrumentalist and super-producer on Bleachers' song “Chinatown” and the results are electric, a sound from two New Jersey lads reminiscent of The National mashed with “Born to Run.” Springsteen appears on only that one song, but he's spiritually all over this album. Antonoff, the guitarist in the band fun. who also records as Bleachers, channels The Boss' driving, sax-and-jam sound in “How Dare You Want More,” “Big Life” and "Don't Go Dark," but his idiosyncratic musical tastes are also on vivid display on the terrific 10-track “Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.”