"Neil Young employs Crazy Horse to help him bash out a guitar-drenched hard rock set made up of thrown-together material ... For the second album in a row, Young seems to be just fulfilling his one-album-a-year record contract ... Later, it would be revealed that Young was finding time for his music while giving most of his attention to caring for his disabled son. Still, he might have been better advised to have suspended record-making for a few years instead of turning out half-baked efforts like this one".