"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".