Toast
| Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Toast
Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known for their association with Neil Young. Beginning in 1968 and continuing to the present day, they have been co-credited on a number of Young's albums, with 12 studio albums and numerous live albums being billed as by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Wikipedia
Toast — A shelved Neil Young & Crazy Horse album recorded in 2001. Released July 8, 2022.
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The Guardian
Steeped in romantic misery, Young’s unreleased, riff-heavy ‘sad’ album was worth the wait.
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Pitchfork
Recorded in 2001, this previously unreleased LP from Young and his most recognizable accompanists is a surprisingly slick, fans-only affair.
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Clash Magazine
At its heart ‘Toast’ is a very personal, and sombre, affair about the breakdown of a relationship. As usual, he articulates his feelings in a way that few of his peers can – the problem is he’s done this before, and with better results. The main themes of the album are forgiveness, reassurance, and an underlying feeling that the party is over. While this might not be the most fun album to listen to, Neil Young and Crazy Horse deliver solid performances that elevate it from seven songs of despondency. And that, at least, is worth a toast.
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AllMusic
Whether you prefer the slightly more organic vibe of Toast or the cleaned-up Are You Passionate? will depend on your personal relationship with Young's massive catalog. For fans of his early moody rock or the rough-edged brilliance he always locked into with Crazy Horse, Toast will be a clear favorite more than just an interesting companion piece.
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Hotpress
‘Toast’ should be welcomed by Young-olytes as it’s certainly better than albums like Greendale that he was actually putting out around the turn of the century.
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The Arts Desk
As with the beauty Toast mined from his pain, this cumulatively confirms that Neil Young goes on.
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Uncut
Twenty-two years late… the Horse’s mythic ‘lost’ album arrives and what a magnificent album it is.
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Spectrum Culture
Toast feels like a collection of songs in which the musicians tried a few times, weren't sure and decided to come back to it later (but, for the most part, didn't).
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Under the Radar Magazine
Toast is an invocation of impending loss so powerful and relatable as to be, at times, unbearable. That Young with Crazy Horse are able to create sublime songs from this ruinous situation is a feat unto itself; that Young only felt safe to release them 20 years after they were made is an indictment of just how ruthlessly personal and genuinely affecting they are. Perhaps its title is a fragile glass raised to a lost love; perhaps it’s an acknowledgment of something burned beyond recognition. Young seems, by the evidence here, to want and to have it both ways.
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The Daily Californian
Neil Young, Crazy Horse’s ‘Toast’ is jam-packed slice of heaven photo of Neil Young's toast album cover.
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