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Following is a preview of noteworthy releases for the first two months of the year.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

“WORKING ON A DREAM” (COLUMBIA, JAN. 27)

Reinvigorated by the rich pop that fueled 2006’s “Magic” and the tour that followed, Bruce Springsteen, the E Street Band and producer Brendan O’Brien knocked out “Working on a Dream” in occasional sessions while gigging last year (some featuring late keyboardist Danny Federici and his son Jason). The title track and second single “My Lucky Day” hint that Springsteen and O’Brien are continuing along the big, upbeat path that would sound great live. But the opener “Outlaw Pete” is a slow-burning, eight-minute narrative, while “Good Eye” hints at the swamp-blues sounds Springsteen has occasionally explored on tour.

FRANZ FERDINAND

“TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND” (EPIC, JAN. 27)

Franz Ferdinand makes good on its stated desire to produce a “dirty pop” album with “rhythm- and dance-based” songs on its third long-player. Throughout, the Scottish band lets its funky bass lines handle much of the heavy lifting, decorating them with vintage synth melodies straight out of the Genesis or Sparks playbooks. Elsewhere, the band’s cold grooves nod to Wire, Can and “Miss You”-era Rolling Stones. Franz’s first two albums “were very jerky,” frontman Alex Kapranos says. “This one is much more of a swinger.”

50 CENT

“BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT” (SHADY/INTERSCOPE, FEB. 3)

Originally due late last year, 50 Cent’s latest was bumped to the first quarter to allow him more time to hone tracks with longtime mates Eminem and Dr. Dre. “I have a couple of tracks on there with him. It’s sick,” Eminem says. Dr. Dre’s fingerprints are all over the new single “I Get It In.” “Before I Self Destruct” will be bundled with a full-length feature film of the same name, in which 50 plays a budding basketball star who becomes a criminal after his mother’s murder.


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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, FRANZ FERDINAND and 50 CENT WOW