Records we have scored.
Neil Young made a soul record. Are You Passionate? teams him with Booker T. & the M.G.’s, and the pairing is meant to loosen him up, put some warmth and groove under songs about love, loss and grief. It runs 65 minutes across 11 tracks. The idea is bold. The execution is not. The Opening […]
Prairie Wind is Neil Young’s return to the acoustic, string-and-harmonica sound of Harvest and Harvest Moon. It arrives in 2005 shaped by two events: a brain aneurysm Young survived and the death of his father. The deluxe edition reviewed here runs 26 tracks and 68 minutes, mixing the album’s nine songs with spoken interview segments […]
“Broken Arrow” runs eight tracks and 47 minutes, and it wants to feel loose, live, unpolished — a band playing in a room, not chasing a single. Neil Young made it with Crazy Horse in 1996, not long after producer David Briggs died, and the record leans hard on long jams and guitar interplay instead […]
Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams II arrives in 2007 as a sequel in name only. There is no original Chrome Dreams on record store shelves — that album never got a proper release — so this is Young picking up a title and running somewhere new with it. The record swings between compact rock songs and […]
A raving look at Exile on Main St., the Rolling Stones' rough, forceful masterpiece of rock, country, and blues, ruled a perfect ten.
A solemn review of a record whose long hours conceal but a few true treasures amid much idle drifting.
A review of Neil Young's Mirror Ball, a loud, quickly made record where a backing band pushes his old pictures into rough, free shapes.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse's 1994 record of grief, a plain, heavy work that sits inside loss instead of explaining it.
A record of steady guitar and long repetition, wild and loud, wherein a band lets each song run as long as it will.
Neil Young brings back Crazy Horse for a record that reaches for a loud old sound but finds the studio working against it.
A doomed alien singer, a band of guitar spiders, eleven songs burning out before an audience — the record that made Bowie a star.
A solemn regard upon Aretha Franklin's grand record of respect and sorrow, a work whose passion has not diminished with years.
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