I always have ideas going, and there’s little stuff here and there. I’m sure we’ll start to make new stuff soon. We always do – we’re always moving around and making music. It’s just what we do!”

The LP delves into “everything from mortality to mental illness to the more precarious dimensions of human connection” throughout, and “achieves the tremendous feat of hitting every raw nerve while endlessly inspiring wildly triumphant singing-along”. Yarbrough, Jesse. "ALBUM REVIEW: History Books – The Gaslight Anthem". XS Noize . Retrieved October 28, 2023. What’s evident in every inch of Brian Fallon’s voice is that ‘History Books’ represents not the belated closing of a chapter in the Gaslight Anthem story, but instead the opening of a new one altogether.a b Danton, Eric R. "The Gaslight Anthem Let Go of the Past on History Books". Paste . Retrieved October 28, 2023. Everybody says these words and they seem to like mean nothing but it really does feel like a new beginning,” he adds. “And not a new beginning that doesn’t want to be part of the past, either. It’s a new beginning that is like willing to take the past with it, and say, ‘Yeah, that was awesome then, and it is going to be awesome now, too.” On the subject of Spider Bites: the line ‘ We struggle for each other’ is absolutely beautiful. Where did that come from?

Walton, Ed (October 25, 2023). "Album Review: History Books – The Gaslight Anthem". Distorted Sound . Retrieved October 28, 2023.The Gaslight Anthem's 2023 LP History Books serves as their first since 2014, and the band brings such ferocity to their return, it sounds as if they're trying to wipe away a near-decade's worth of cobwebs in a single riff, cymbal crash, and lyric. Somber but not sad, History Books recalls the urgency and triumph of the band's sophomore effort and