Le Noise
| Neil Young
Le Noise
Le Noise is the 30th studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on September 28, 2010. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Daniel Lanois, hence the titular pun (although "Lanois" is pronounced "Lan-wha"). - WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
After an unpredictable decade, the rock vet starts off a new one with a near-solo record helmed by famed producer Daniel Lanois.
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RollingStone
Le Noise is, ultimately, an extreme simplicity: the sound of a man who won’t give up.
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The Guardian
Neil Young's latest is frightened, confused, and a bit of an effort.
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CoS
this is one of Young’s best albums in years.
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SLANT
Le Noise is the sound of a singer-songwriter playing to his strengths.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
this is the Neil Young to embrace.
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BBC
Once again, he’s not let us down.
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NME
The potential is lost beneath endlessly unconvincing soundscapes.
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AV/MUSIC
Sept 28, 2010 - he’s once again made an album that sounds better on paper than through speakers.
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popMATTERS
Le Noise encapsulates nearly everything that you'd want or need from a Neil Young album, and does so in a novel yet organic way.
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Austin Chronicle
From its first chord hit and sustained, distortion displacing air, Le Noise courts Neil Young's classic platters.
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Los Angeles Times
Le Noise is not an epic -– if it were a book, you could read it in an afternoon -– but it's statement enough from a man who's already said so much.
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FILTER
Young's sandblasting electric guitar sits handsomely alone before eerie rumbling atmospheres.
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Amercian Songwriter
this is a record well worth having, and it's a blessing that we still have enduring artists like Neil Young creating such vital music.
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SPIN
is all about doubt and desperation, and Young is never better than when he's unsure of himself.
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Boston Globe
It builds a rich sonic arch around Young's voice and guitar, bottling the essence of what makes him such a compelling singer-songwriter at 64.
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NOW
What makes this work so beautifully is that the sound is completely unique and modern and yet couldn't be confused for anyone else.
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Entertainment
Underneath that intriguing tinsel, it's just one more late-period Young album, all grungy chords and ghostly falsetto.
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Drowned in Sound
it's not a completely successful experiment, but Le Noise is certainly an important moment in Neil Young's ongoing story.
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Dusted Magazine
What's up with all this defeat? The answers, in no particular order: Because he's Neil Young.
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prefix
As great as these songs are, how much you love them will rest on how long a leash you're willing to give Young and Lanois with the all ringing, sometimes overbearing, noise they wrap them in.
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ALL MUSIC
Le Noise winds up as something elusive and intriguing, a minor mood piece that seems to promise more than it actually delivers.
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The Quietus
this is a fresh, raw, treat… at once, beautifully accessible (after two listens), addictive and occasionally disorientating.
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NPR
The result is a stunning sonic adventure.
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The Aboso!ute Sound
that sense of honesty and vulnerability helps make Le Noise a return to form for a major if inconsistent artist.
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SOS
Neil Young has made his share of experimental albums, but his latest might be the most extreme, thanks to Daniel Lanois' revolutionary approach to live dub mixing.
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Daily News
It gives one of rock's oldest dogs a new trick.
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New York Times
These songs are pretty complex, actually.
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musicOHM
Le Noise is the sound of a restless and prolific artist striving to deal with the burden of his great legacy.
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sputnik music
A unique, dark and intimate addition to Neil Young’s repertoire.
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UNCUT
Just Neil, his guitars, and Daniel Lanois. Raw magic ensues...
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Punk Rock Theory
It’s just Young’s voice and his electric guitar with Lanois fiddling the knobs but it works.
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Speakers in Code
Le Noise is one of Neil Young's most powerful albums to date, thanks to the raw power of these solo electric performances.
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glide
Le Noise begins a new chapter in Young’s solo, no band-mate phase.
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Billboard
"Le Noise" is about exactly that-raw musing about love, injustice and self-doubt, submerged in ethereal, electric sound.
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INDEPENDENT
There is sonic experimentation, but Le Noise is essentially the sound of a man, a guitar and an (at times painfully) open heart.
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Express
His best album since Rust Never Sleeps more than 30 years ago.
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Sonic Abuse
]A triumph for an artist who consistently divides opinion.
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entertainment.ie
]a fuzzy distortion that ends up making these eight songs all sound more or less the same.
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National Post
- one of Young’s strongest-ever albums in concept and execution.
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No Depression
Young, though still the wandering spirit, shares a lasting hopefulness on "Le Noise" -- that he can fight through loss to find a deeper appreciation for what remains, that he can better understand himself and this world, that he can still help lead the way. Even if it takes some time to get there, for Neil Young -- and for us.
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Don Ignacio
his most bad-ass record in more than a decade.
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Rock and Roll Report
Missing the sound of a full band, some will call “Le Noise” dull, perhaps even lazy. Others will insist that the sparse arrangements place focus on the guitar, lyrics and sonic fireworks.
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LEXGO
The make up of Le Noise is novel even by Young's standards.
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Music Vice
The anti-pop star has created his ultimate anti-pop record.
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The Austin Chronicle
From its first chord hit and sustained, distortion displacing air, Le Noise courts Neil Young's classic platters.
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TONE Publications
Le Noise is a record that changes how music can be presented and heard.
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Adrian Denning
It cools you down in summer and spring but sounds like ice when listened to during the cold winter nights. A mood piece, certainly.
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All Gigs
Another vital chapter in old Shakeys priceless book of rock-music.
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NOW
What makes this work so beautifully is that the sound is completely unique and modern and yet couldn't be confused for anyone else.
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