“Twilight Hours is an orchestral album of “romantic, lost-in-the-city songs” inspired by the American pop standards, said Springsteen in press materials. “At one time it was either a double record [with Western Stars] or they were part of the same record,” he added. “I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters. I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those ’60s albums.”