Album Reviews6.8/10
Neil Young Chases Urgency, Not Polish, on ‘The Visitor’
A raw, restless record of rage and hope from Neil Young and Promise of the Real, uneven yet full of life.
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Album Reviews6/10
Neil Young Puts a Full Orchestra Behind Ten New Songs on Storytone — Only Some Survive It
Neil Young's 35th studio work weds ten new songs to orchestra and big-band grandeur, a bold experiment that swings between triumph and excess.
Album Reviews8/10
Alone With a Guitar and Daniel Lanois’ Sonic Warping, Young Makes Le Noise Mostly Work
A solitary guitar, a haunted voice: Neil Young's Le Noise, a raw and singular record from an artist who will not rest.
Album Reviews6.1/10
Fork in the Road: Neil Young’s Loud, Loose Love Letter to His Electric Car
A raw, quick garage-rock record about cars and choices — an honest mess that works when heard as a strange, worn document.
Album Reviews7.5/10
Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s ‘World Record’: A Raw, Honest Climate Rock Album
A record made in a room with windows open: brief pleas for a suffering planet, one long ramble, and voices worn raw with meaning.
Album Reviews7.3/10
Neil Young’s Prairie Wind Rates a 7.3 — Warm Acoustic Craft Undercut by a Bloated Deluxe Edition
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 […]
Album Reviews6/10
Neil Young and Crazy Horse Jam Through Grief on ‘Broken Arrow’ — Good Songs, Loose Shape
“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 […]
Album Reviews7/10
Chrome Dreams II: Two Epics and the Short Songs Between Them
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 […]
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.
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.