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psychedelic pill
Psychedelic Pill is the 32nd studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on October 30, 2012.[1] It is the second collaboration between Young and Crazy Horse released in 2012 (the first being Americana) and their first original work together since the Greendale album and tour in 2003 and 2004. The album was streamed on Young's website on October 24, 2012, and leaked onto the Internet the same day. WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
Oct 30, 2012 - Neil Young's first collection of new material with Crazy Horse since 2003's Greendale. "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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Adrian Denning
You could also state that this is one of the 'most' Crazy Horse, Neil Young and Crazy Horse albums he's ever made.
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RollingStone
Oct 30, 2012 - 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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UCR
Oct 26, 2012 - You never know if you’re hearing something transcendentally brilliant or a runaway train wreck. Either way, you won’t be able to turn away.
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CoS
Oct 31, 2012 - On Psychedelic Pill, there are more than enough reasons to stay plenty excited.
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The Observer
Oct 27, 2012 - The man refuses to be parcelled up into neat bitstreams and that's never been clearer than on this uneven but involving album.
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NPR
Oct 30, 2012 - When the singing stops and Young falls into one of the band's epic guitar journeys, the music positively erupts.
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NME
Oct 26, 2012 - A gnarly whopper of a treat.
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AV/MUSIC
Oct 30, 2012 - “Psychedelic Pill” manages to cram fluid chord changes and supple melody into its throbbing, pachyderm-like heaviness.
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sputnik music
Nov 4, 2012 - The best medicine.
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paste
Oct 30, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill may be the best album Neil Young has ever done with Crazy Horse.
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dusted
Oct 30, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill is earnest and perverse, simplistic and complicated, epic and underachieving--guess the old cuss still has it in him after all.
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Under the Radar
Oct 30, 2012 - Half of these tracks are under four-and-a-half minutes, which makes Psychedelic Pill a vehicle for some of the most intense and blistering (and longest) tunes Neil Young & Crazy Horse have ever put to tape.
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INDEPENDENT on Sunday (UK)
Oct 28, 2012 - Even if [Psychedelic Pill is not essential], it's by some way the best non-essential album Neil Young has ever made.
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The Guardian
Oct 25, 2012 -beautiful harmonies, plaintive chord changes and chugging country-rock rhythms that allow Young's improvised guitar solos room to roam.
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BBC
2012 - 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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DROWNED IN SOUND
Oct 29, 2012 - What really sets Psychedelic Pill out as some of Young's strongest work in a while though are those other epic tracks, which deliver that expansive, explorative sound with some deeper voyages into the singer's thoughts.
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NOW
Oct 11, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill is exactly the kind of noisy, joyfully loose and oddly hypnotizing guitar album we love Crazy Horse for.
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SLANT
Oct 22, 2012 - It's longwinded, taxing, and crunchily dissonant, bereft of even the token acoustic gem-not an album to be tinkered with by anyone who isn't already firmly in the Crazy Horse saddle. For those who are, the album will be something close to a revelation.
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UNCUT
Oct 9, 2012 - To some, Psychedelic Pill will seem like a monumental work of self-indulgence. To others, though, its heft and eccentricity make it one of the purest expressions of Young's genius to date.
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INDEPENDENT(UK)
Oct 20, 2012 - Young's best album in some while.
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Chicago Tribune
Oct 28, 2012 - The foursome may be interrupted by time and circumstance, but whenever they find themselves in a room together with their instruments they pick up the conversation exactly where they left off.
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FILTER
Nov 6, 2012 - Not for the fainthearted or short of attention, several of Psychedelic Pill's tracks drag on--wildly and intoxicatingly, of course, so there's little room for boredom to set in.
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ALL MUSIC
Nov 8, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill [is] yet another oddity in a catalog filled with them: it's noise rock as comfort food.
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SPIN
Oct 30, 2012 - The results are the most pleasant kind of rambling imaginable.
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popMATTERS
Oct 29, 2012 - The sonic territory on Young's latest is perhaps a bit too expansive to be considered iconic or essential, but it proves that the 66-year-old rocker shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
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The New York Times
Oct 29, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill doesn't try to ingratiate itself with new fans. It's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition, and one worth taking.
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American Songwriter
Oct 28, 2012 - The problem with Psychedelic Pill, and it's a substantial one, is that, besides that inspired ending, the instrumental passages don't distinguish themselves as being all that memorable.
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exclaim
Oct 28, 2012 - What we get on Psychedelic Pill are stream-of-consciousness attempts ("Driftin' Back"), along with musings on the grim reality of old age ("Ramada Inn") and the regrets that come with it ("Walk Like A Giant").
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Boston Globe
Oct 31, 2012 - Too often bloat tempers the brilliance.
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The Telegraph
Oct 26, 2012 - It's a loose album, an indulgent album, and not all likeable but, unlike any other outfit of their tenure, they maintain a raw punch as if recording in a local bar for the sheer blast of it.
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The Quietus
Nov 7, 2012 - It's sad to report then, that Psychedelic Pill is nothing less than a crushing disappointment as it gives way to Young's most meandering and directionless tendencies.
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The Washington Post
Oct 29, 2012 - In some respects, Young’s new album serves as a primer to the themes and impulses that have defined his work for more than five decades now.
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TIME
Nov 2, 2012 - It finds the singer hoping to reclaim past glory, looking back as a way to get excited about the difficult future. On Psychedelic Pill, there are more than enough reasons to stay plenty excited.
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LIVE FOR LIVE MUSIC
Nov 5, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill is satisfying and a must buy for any lover of classic rock. As this album was both lyrically as well as musically impressive, Neil Young and Crazy Horse never disappoint.
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PREMIER Guitar
Dec 10, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill, is a ferociously stubborn assertion that he has no intent to waver from his commitment to feeling, art, or for that matter, artlessness if that’s what moves him.
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musicOHM
Oct 29, 2012 - there’s a good deal more to like on Psychedelic Pill than on any Young album since perhaps as long ago as Sleeps With Angels.
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The MARQUEE
Dec 1, 2012 - While the Godfather of Grunge and his trusty steed hit those majestic moments multiple times on Psychedelic Pill, there’s an underlying awfulness to the entire album, and sadly, that awfulness comes in the form of Young’s tired, trite lyricism.
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Steve Hoffman Forum
May 19, 2017 - Crazy Horse doesn't just redeem Neil Young's mawkish moments — it transforms them.
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tcs
Dec 10, 2012 - This album is a triumph, a hugely relevant social commentary, a masterpiece of understated brilliance.
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THE FIRE NOTE
Nov 8, 2012 - Neil Young saddles up the Horse for a long psychedelic journey through the past!
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Montreal Gazette
Oct 28, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill, unfortunately, will take its place with the endurance tests in the Young/ Horse catalogue. It comes as a disappointment, given that their earlier collaboration this year, Americana.
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NewsDay
Oct 29, 2012 - "Psychedelic Pill" isn't the "Basement Tapes" -- nobody works hard enough on songwriting for that -- but it has the same easy camaraderie.
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Birmingham LIVE
Jan 28, 2013 - if you are a fan of classic Neil Young and Crazy Horse, then buy ‘Psychedelic Pill’. However, if you are new to his music, then buy one of his brilliant 1960s or 1970s albums.
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LONE STAR MUSIC MAGAZINE
Jan 1, 2013 - Psychedelic Pill is a heaping helping of new Neil in peak, uncompromising form.
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newsok
Nov 2, 2012 - Still the angry rebel and idiosyncratic artist who hasn't abandoned the hippie dream, Young returns to form with his favorite backing band and the best record he's done in decades.
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CHORD COMPANY
Dec 3, 2012 - At some point in the future your grandchildren are going to think you’re so cool when you play them this.
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Baugh's Blog
Nov 24, 2012 - Another tremendous album, then, from Neil Young and Crazy Horse. It won’t be to everyone’s taste.
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EASY STREET RECORDS
Overall it was a fun listen. Nothing like hearing a bunch of old guys jam. You can hear and feel the history, and sometimes the arthritis, making the album feel real and almost tangible.
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THE STAR
Oct 29, 2012 - When it works, it works.
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Hifi Pig
Dec 13, 2012 -it’s a must for fans and is a mostly enjoyable and sometimes intriguing album that really stands out like a beacon.
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seattle pi
Oct 28, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill delivers the goods and then some.
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Speakers in Code
Oct 30, 2012 - My advice to you is this before hitting "play": take a deep breath, and hold on to the great moments, of which there are plenty.
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Classic Rock Revisited
Psychedelic Pill is a masterpiece and one of the best albums of 2012.
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The Line of Best Fit
Nov 20, 2012 - whilst you certainly don’t have to be a Neil Young fanatic to appreciate Psychedelic Pill, some familiarity with the 67-year old songwriter’s eccentricities might help in getting acquainted.
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jambands.com
Nov 1, 2012 - Mission accomplished.
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Something Else!
Sept 25, 2012 - On Psychedelic Pill, he joins together with Crazy Horse to construct a fiery requiem for the decade, and to chart a path away from its crushing disappointments.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Nov 15, 2012 - This is great music to sit back, inhale and just get lost in.
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Las Vegas Weekly
Oct 31, 2012 - Smell the Horse!
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LEXGO
Oct 29, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill belongs to the unexpurgated range and rage of a rock 'n' roll original — and the Horse he rode in on.
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Fortitude Magazine
This is the sound of a band returning to their finest form, and could easily give any album in their repertoire a run for its money.
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BLINDED BY SOUND
Nov 7, 2012 - Psychedelic Pill proves there’s still room in rock for stretching out and for turning up those amplifiers for long jams that go nowhere and everywhere all at once.
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TONE Audio
Oct 10, 2012 - symbolic middle finger to modern convention.
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vintagerock.com
amidst all the stuff populating the charts, Neil Young and Crazy Horse are all about staying true to their roots, their unique and messy sound, their up-and-down existence.
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