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8.3
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8.3 |
Gig Soup
Young is more measured and reflective. He’s angry, but he’s “working on solutions” as he says in “Forever”. Of course, it’s a protest album, but he gets all the bluff and bluster out of the way pretty early on. Then the conversation starts
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8.0
101299
8.0 |
Mojo
Some of his best songwriting in yonks. Print edition only
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8.0
101306
8.0 |
Q
It veers between raw fury and tender melodies. Print edition only
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8.0
101086
8.0 |
American Songwriter
Don’t call it a comeback, but damn if it doesn’t feel like one.
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8.0
101087
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The players in Promise of the Real and the naturalism of the record’s production lends a real sense of pragmatism to Young’s thoughts. And those ideas are constructive ones
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7.5
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7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
When the songs are firing on all cylinders, the results can be extraordinary and quite unlike anything Young’s done before
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Young detours into blues on "Diggin' a Whole" and absurdist eccentricity on the eight-minute "Carnival," spinning a surreal circus allegory over a south-of-the-border saunter
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7.0
101143
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
The Visitor finds Neil Young tilting again at the political windmills of the present day
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6.7
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6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
The remaining eight tracks on The Visitor rank up there with the best stuff Neil Young has released since the turn of the century
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6.7
101175
6.7 |
Pitchfork
While still pointedly political, Neil Young’s latest with Promise of the Real takes a more freewheeling, macro look at the world and becomes more centered than his recent albums
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6.0
101089
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
What impresses is the conviction - the passion for all that is good about America from a musician who hails from Canada
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6.0
101122
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Neil Young tears into the age of Trump with vigour
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6.0
101124
6.0 |
The Guardian
The scattergun approach can lack focus, but Young sounds energised by the need to confront hatred and division with humanity and hope
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5.5
101249
5.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The Visitor offers plenty of unedited Young, which makes it insightful and captivating, but it remains the unpolished work of someone who doesn’t even feel the need to be committed to it anymore
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4.2
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4.2 |
A.V. Club
A jam session with some cranky speak-singing on it doesn’t make for a great album, and it’s not going to make any new converts, unfortunately—either to Neil Young’s politics or his music
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4.0
101121
4.0 |
The Independent
Backing band Promise Of The Real fall some way short of the full Crazy Horse, trudging rather than imposing a sense of implacable destiny
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