Album Reviews6/10
Mirror Ball: Neil Young Loud, Loose, and Halfway Home
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.
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Album Reviews9/10
Sleeps With Angels: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Sit Inside the Loss
Neil Young & Crazy Horse's 1994 record of grief, a plain, heavy work that sits inside loss instead of explaining it.
Album Reviews10/10
Ragged Glory: Loud, Loose and Better for It
A record of steady guitar and long repetition, wild and loud, wherein a band lets each song run as long as it will.
Album Reviews6/10
Neil Young Reunites Crazy Horse on ‘Life,’ but 80s Production Muffles the Band
Neil Young brings back Crazy Horse for a record that reaches for a loud old sound but finds the studio working against it.
Album Reviews10/10
Ziggy Stardust at 54: Bowie’s Doomed Alien Still Burns Brightest
A doomed alien singer, a band of guitar spiders, eleven songs burning out before an audience — the record that made Bowie a star.
Album Reviews9/10
Aretha Franklin Takes Hold of Soul on ‘I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You’ — 9/10
A solemn regard upon Aretha Franklin's grand record of respect and sorrow, a work whose passion has not diminished with years.
Album Reviews10/10
The Velvet Underground & Nico Mapped Rock’s Darker Territory Before Anyone Else Dared
A record of noise, daring, and habits nobody else would touch — eleven tracks that still play like a warning.
Album Reviews10/10
Noise by Noise: Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ Still Takes What It Wants
A record from 1988 that takes attention and never gives it back, full of noise, fury, and voice.
Album Reviews5.8/10
Twelve Years On, The Endless River Still Sounds Like Pink Floyd Clearing Out the Attic
A farewell record of mood, not song, wherein Pink Floyd leaves much unsaid, and calls it, at last, an ending.
Album Reviews6/10
Young Bites the Sponsors’ Hand: ‘This Note’s for You’ and Its Anti-Advertising Snarl, 38 Years On
A grim tale of Neil Young's 1988 Bluenotes record, its banned title song, and the guitar that saves it from excess brass.