The times

"Bare Young med akustisk guitar og mundharpe - og tydeligt inspireret af den tilspidsede amerikanske valgkamp på det tidspunkt. Det sker mest med dybe kommenterende tilbageblik ... Hvis nogen overhovedet skulle være i tvivl, sætter Young holdningernes skab helt på plads med en opdateret og huggende udgave af 'Lookin' for a Leader 2020' - oprindeligt skrevet i 2006 med håbet om bedre tider med Obama (som emne), men nu i fornyet version med støtte til Biden: 'We don't need a leader / Building walls around our house / Who don't know black lives matter/ It's time to vote him out'".

"The iconic songwriter offers a selection of tunes from across his catalog, performed live in his house and recorded with an iPad. It sounds as starkly homemade as you'd expect".

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"This EP (...) seems to be a response to the actions of one man and one man alone. Originally broadcast as a part of Neil Young's Fireside Session livestream, `The Times' is a collection of Young's finest protest songs re-recorded for a world that needs them more than ever, and aimed at person who seems intent on destroying it".

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"Hearing Neil Young sing some of his most politically charged songs, on his own, during a pandemic in 2020, is rather startling. Who has more fire in their belly than him? That he can sound as charged up as a 20-year-old, mad as all hell during a U.S. presidential campaign, but using a gentle register of his voice that somehow makes him sound like he means it more than he ever has, is remarkable".

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