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9.1
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9.1 |
A.V. Club
Gritty warmth and haunting memories
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9.0
48070
9.0 |
Paste Magazine
May be the best album Neil Young has ever done with Crazy Horse
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9.0
48188
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
An album of many moods. It veers from cautious optimism, to sadness and to those odd moments where you feel anything’s possible. Young and Crazy Horse continue to run free. Long may it continue
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8.5
47850
8.5 |
BBC
This isn’t a conventional album by the ordinary standards of today, but it’s fantastic. Crazy Horse are the perfect band for this sort of wistful noise, carrying both Young’s simple melodies and his love of stretching out with equal ease
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8.0
47863
8.0 |
The Guardian
Beautiful harmonies, plaintive chord changes and chugging country-rock rhythms that allow Young's improvised guitar solos room to roam
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8.0
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8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Full of smudges and indulgences, but also bursting with passion, soul and blissful music
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8.0
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8.0 |
Slant Magazine
If on a song-by-song reckoning Psychedelic Pill doesn't match Harvest Moon or even Rust Never Sleeps, it eclipses both in its sheer immersive ambition and lyrical experiments
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
“Ramada Inn” is the other great cornerstone of Young's best album in some while
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8.0
47893
8.0 |
Evening Standard
With three key tracks weighing in at 16 minutes 29 seconds, 16 min 50 sec and 27?min 37 sec, it’s a place to get lost in Young’s brutal, crackling guitar work
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Arts Desk
From bathos to brilliance, all of Neil Young is in here somewhere
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8.0
47918
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
It's by some way the best non-essential album Neil Young has ever made
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
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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8.0
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8.0 |
Under The Radar
Psychedelic Pill is as near to perfect as this lineup may record. Most Neil Young albums are either good or very good, but it’s been quite a while since he’s released one like this
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
If the thought of tackling Young’s longest ever studio album hasn’t scared you off, you must be a fan. In which case, prepare yourself for a treat
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8.0
48019
8.0 |
Mojo
Genius music, fag packet lyrics: near-classic Neil. Print edition only
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8.0
48052
8.0 |
Q
It has the messy. majestic sprawl of classic Crazy Horse. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Accept the occasional spot of self-indulgence, and you’ll soon discoverer just how intense, inspired and energised Psychedelic Pill sounds
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
Stop taking the obvious route of quibbling about boring old hippie curmudgeonly self-indulgence, sit back and let it happen to you
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Irish Times
Neil Young serves up a monumental meal of memories, marathon guitar solos, seductive tunes, reverb, echo and muscular playing
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8.0
48104
8.0 |
Blurt
Sonically speaking, it's a monster, coursing with primal ferocity and sending wave upon wave of le noise directly at your gut
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7.0
48073
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
If Americana served as a warm-up reunion for the band, the 88-minute Psychedelic Pill is a fully realized display of the highs and lows of the well-travelled, sloppy garage band
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7.0
48560
7.0 |
All Music
Young sounds like a defiant old coot pining for his past, which makes Psychedelic Pill yet another oddity in a catalog filled with them: it's noise rock as comfort food
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7.0
47956
7.0 |
Pitchfork
There's enough life and fuck-you attitude left in Psychedelic Pill to remind a listener that "it's better to burn out than to fade away" wasn't necessarily about dying young, so long as you avoided phoning it in
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
An exercise in consistency, illustrating that delivering the formula that has always seemed to work for Young’s fans is safe but satisfying
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
At its best, Psychedelic Pill is an invigorating, ramshackle, heavy beast. At its worst, it’s enjoyably daft
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7.0
48007
7.0 |
Spin
Not only does Young vividly reprise three or four musical selves here, but he effortlessly invents at least one new one in the process
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6.0
47919
6.0 |
The Observer
The guitars fill in the logic gaps with the kind of instinctual playing honed over 40 years, interlocking jams that have probably seen action before, but not so much you'd mind
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6.0
47872
6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Despite the flaws, it’s great to have Neil Young & Crazy Horse back as, even when things don’t work, the sound of them travelling their own path in these musically homogenised times has a definite, if slightly perverse, appeal
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Scotsman
Young and his wild gee-gees follow this summer’s ropey Americana covers collection with this altogether more convincing display of their intuitive brawn
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4.0
48273
4.0 |
The Quietus
Nothing less than a crushing disappointment as it gives way to Young's most meandering and directionless tendencies
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