Barn

"Alternately cutting and corny, Young's songwriting feels impassioned to the point of diffusion: the songs aren't so much crafted as delivered. Happily, the loose performances more than suit these ragged compositions, turning Barn into a snapshot of this moment in time: a bunch of old friends in isolation, finding solace and comfort in the noise they can still make".

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"Even when Young and Crazy Horse employ familiar audial and thematic elements, as they do on The Barn, their offerings rarely sound rote or feel formulaically generated. Their navigations of sublimity vs. subtlety, maximalism vs. spaciousness, and free improvisation vs. precise composition are like inexhaustible stylistic lodes, influencing many of popular music's major movements, including art-rock, noise-rock, shoegaze, and grunge, as well as these genres' contemporary heirs. To reference Young's 1976 collaboration with Stephen Stills, long may they run".

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"Barn is probably the least frustrating new Young album in some time. These are 10 cogent songs about love and life, about the recent past, the years long gone and our future, delivered with verve, emotion and snarls of six-string authority".

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"Alternately cutting and corny, Young's songwriting feels impassioned to the point of diffusion: the songs aren't so much crafted as delivered. Happily, the loose performances more than suit these ragged compositions, turning Barn into a snapshot of this moment in time: a bunch of old friends in isolation, finding solace and comfort in the noise they can still make".

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"Barn is probably the least frustrating new Young album in some time. These are 10 cogent songs about love and life, about the recent past, the years long gone and our future, delivered with verve, emotion and snarls of six-string authority".

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"Even when Young and Crazy Horse employ familiar audial and thematic elements, as they do on The Barn, their offerings rarely sound rote or feel formulaically generated. Their navigations of sublimity vs. subtlety, maximalism vs. spaciousness, and free improvisation vs. precise composition are like inexhaustible stylistic lodes, influencing many of popular music's major movements, including art-rock, noise-rock, shoegaze, and grunge, as well as these genres' contemporary heirs. To reference Young's 1976 collaboration with Stephen Stills, long may they run".

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"'Barn' er et overraskende energisk og umiddelbart album. Stemmen er blevet ældre og mere sprød, men det er et mindre problem hos en vokalist, der altid har vægtet personligheden højere end skønsangen ... 'Barn' tæller som et af de senere års mest veloplagte albums i Neil Youngs efterhånden lige så ujævne som ukuelige output ... i det hele taget kommer Neil Young vidt omkring på de ti nye sange. Klimakrise og det økologiske sammenbrud har Neil Young lagt stemme til, længe før det blev hverdagskost. På 'Barn' får vi hele paletten fra sorg og raseri til resignation og stoicisme".

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"'Barn' er et overraskende energisk og umiddelbart album. Stemmen er blevet ældre og mere sprød, men det er et mindre problem hos en vokalist, der altid har vægtet personligheden højere end skønsangen ... 'Barn' tæller som et af de senere års mest veloplagte albums i Neil Youngs efterhånden lige så ujævne som ukuelige output ... i det hele taget kommer Neil Young vidt omkring på de ti nye sange. Klimakrise og det økologiske sammenbrud har Neil Young lagt stemme til, længe før det blev hverdagskost. På 'Barn' får vi hele paletten fra sorg og raseri til resignation og stoicisme".

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