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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren features guest appearances by Ron Carter, David Crosby, the Howard Gospel Choir, Ringo Starr, and Neil Young.
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- Record Label: Wienerworld
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Classic Rock MagazineJul 21, 2023Mountains finds the 71-year-old Lofgren railing at a world in which the progressive values of the 60s have been superseded by Trumpian self-interest, all in typically melodic fashion. [Aug 2023, p.75]
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Jul 20, 2023It’d behoove him to engage with an objective third party to help produce the album (a task he assumed here along with his spouse). Based on the slightly erratic nature of Mountains, such an alliance would ensure the versatile skills Nils Lofgren still commands would receive all the attention they deserve and in the proper proportion too.
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Jul 20, 2023Lofgren doesn't shy away from big emotions -- one song, "Nothin's Easy," is explicitly dedicated to his wife Amy, who also serves as the album's co-producer, yet many of the other tracks feel informed by their relationship -- and that open-heartedness is the key to the album's success: it enlivens the studio precision and gloss, giving it a warm human pulse.
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Oct 31, 2023Mountains is a decent album by an artist who, although having nothing to prove, still needs to create. And that is a very good thing.
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Jul 18, 2023Other piano-based narratives like the closing “Angel Blues” are delicate, pretty, and charming, but edge dangerously close to schlocky and don’t play to Lofgren’s tougher talents. Thankfully there’s enough solid material here displaying Lofgren’s impressive vocal, instrumental, and songwriting qualities to punch another notch on his belt of good but not great albums.
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UncutJul 18, 2023Had Lofgren trusted his considerable gifts to carry these earnest songs, Mountains would've been a more satisfying album. [Aug 2023, p.34]
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MojoJul 18, 2023He and his guests have history, but the second half of Mountains might have benefited from fewer backing singers - however good, they over-egg the songs. [Sep 2023, p.86]