Wrecking Ball is the 17th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on Columbia Records on March 5, 2012 in the UK and March 6, 2012 in the United States. The album's first single, "We Take Care of Our Own", was released on January 19, 2012.

The album was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau, and features special guest appearances from Tom Morello and Matt Chamberlain.

"The record basically started out as folk music ? just me and a guitar singing these songs," Springsteen told Rolling Stone in 2012. "Then Ron Aniello brought a large library of sound that allowed me to explore ? like maybe a hip-hop drum loop or country-blues stomp loop. The actual drums came later. There was no preconceived set of instruments that needed to be used, I could go anywhere, do anything, use anything. It was very wide open."