Psychedelic pill

"For Neil Young, the Sixties never ended. The music, memories and changes haunt his best songs and records like bittersweet perfume: vital, endlessly renewing inspirations that are also constant, enraging reminders of promises broken and ideals betrayed ... Psychedelic Pill is Young's second album of 2012 with the Horse, his perfectly unpolished garage band of 43 years, and it has the roiling honesty and brutal exuberance of their best records together ... Young may feel like the last hippie standing, but he still sounds like a guy who believes the dreaming is not done"".

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"The album's final epic, "Walk Like a Giant" (...) is easily the best studio Crazy Horse performance since Ragged Glory. Once again, the formula is unchanged - it even swipes pretty heavily from the "Hey Hey My My" riff - but between the verses the Horse is whipped until it foams at the mouth. Everything great about Neil Young, electric guitarist, is on full display, his singular tone veering from feral growls and feedback to blistering fury while the other three egg him on with subtle, perennially underrated counterpoint".

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"Nu er langstrakte sange ikke noget, Neil Young har haft berøringsangst over for i sin karriere, men på Psychedelic Pill mangler hans velkendte snert af arrigskab og brændende guitarer, som han dog fornemt demonstrerer på Walk Like A Giant, mens man skal helt hen i slutningen af Ramadan In, før guitarerne begynder at slå de rette knuder på sig selv. Desværre rammer Young ikke helt niveau på albummets mere almindelige sange".

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"Really, Neil Young's Psychedelic Pill is less a tab of acid and more a madeleine. The past is so alive here you can taste it, and not just in the form of Crazy Horse, the heroically dishevelled band Young toys with when the urge takes him ... Here, Twisted Road, a single of sorts, fetes Young's heroes and contemporaries, Dylan, Roy Orbison and the Grateful Dead. Young has just published a volume of memoirs, a kind of companion piece to this album ... In word, deed and playing, Young defies easy cogency; he is a man who records and releases according to the lunar cycle. "Think I might be a pagan," concludes Driftin' Back. The man refuses to be parcelled up into neat bitstreams and that's never been clearer than on this uneven but involving album. This, it seems, is his message: embrace the sprawl".

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"Denne trodsige fremdrift, de dunkle motiver og den ustoppelige vilje til at søge uden for rockens lov og orden giver 'Psychedelic Pill' en insisterende karakter, der i sidste ende ryster fastlåst nostalgi af sig. Uden dog at slette ønsket om at samtiden skal byde på mere end fladmaste mp3-filer. Young og Crazy Horse byder selv ind med både Pono og ukontrolleret rockexces i bredformat".

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"For anden gang på ét år udsender Young et album med sit 43 år gamle band 'Crazy Horse' ... Endnu en gang lyder musikken melodiøs, sej og tonsetung".

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"Hyggen består af støj og lange soloer, smukke momenter, som kulminerer helt naturligt, og øjeblikke, som ikke rigtigt fører noget sted hen, og så er der teksterne ... Han synger om sin første oplevelse med Dylans "Like A Rolling Stone" og om at blive født i Ontario, Canada.Men der er også nogle sære, sjove sproglige sidespring, f. eks. »gonna get a hip hop haircut«".

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