Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem has been in a kind of Tom Waits-meets-Billy Joel phase of late, especially in his side band the Horrible Crowes. But the title of the Jersey group's new single suggests Gaslight's forthcoming album will be a return to their sincerity-drunk heartland-hardcore basics. "45" is, of course, the RPM speed of a punk seven-inch single, as well as something you flip over when you want a fresh start. Fallon shouts about how his friends helped him get over a breakup, while the emo-Springsteen guitars hoist him aloft and repave Thunder Road.

Listen to the Gaslight Anthem's "45":  
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“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."