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Entertainment WeeklyNov 1, 2012Psychedelic Pill allows pretty haunted melodies like "She's Always Dancing" to seep into the gaps between the jagged solos. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
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Oct 30, 2012Psychedelic Pill, with all its gritty warmth and haunting memories, is among his homiest.
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Nov 5, 2012It veers from cautious optimism, to sadness and to those odd moments where you feel anything's possible. Young and Crazy Horse continue to run free.
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Oct 30, 2012Psychedelic Pill may be the best album Neil Young has ever done with Crazy Horse.
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MojoNov 21, 2012Soft-focus memories echo through all 88 minutes. [Dec 2012, p.89]
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Q MagazineNov 21, 2012It has the messy, majestic sprawl of classic Crazy Horse. [Dec 2012, p.115]
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Oct 31, 2012It's a monster, coursing with primal ferocity and sending wave upon wave of le noise directly at your gut.
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Oct 30, 2012Psychedelic 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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Oct 30, 2012Half 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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Oct 30, 2012Young 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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Oct 29, 2012Even 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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Oct 29, 2012If the thought of tackling Young's longest ever studio album hasn't scared you off, you must be a fan. In which case, prepare yourself for a treat.
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Oct 25, 2012Shakey's first album of original songs with the Horse since 1996 wears their trademark sound like an old slipper – beautiful harmonies, plaintive chord changes and chugging country-rock rhythms that allow Young's improvised guitar solos room to roam.
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Oct 25, 2012This isn't a conventional album by the ordinary standards of today, but it's fantastic. 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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Oct 25, 2012What 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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Oct 23, 2012Psychedelic Pill is exactly the kind of noisy, joyfully loose and oddly hypnotizing guitar album we love Crazy Horse for.
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Oct 23, 2012It'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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Oct 23, 2012To 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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Oct 23, 2012Young's best album in some while.
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Oct 29, 2012The 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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Nov 6, 2012Not 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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MagnetJan 4, 2013He's still evolving, and though the double CD Psychedelic Pill is far from nostalgic, he's spending a helluva lot of time looking back. [No. 94, p.61]
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Nov 8, 2012Psychedelic Pill [is] yet another oddity in a catalog filled with them: it's noise rock as comfort food.
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Oct 31, 2012Psychedelic Pill is a maximalist work from Young; he has taken the central premise of one of his many musical sides and stretched its vision as far as it will go.
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Oct 30, 2012At its best, Psychedelic Pill is an invigorating, ramshackle, heavy beast. At its worst, it's enjoyably daft.
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Oct 30, 2012The results are the most pleasant kind of rambling imaginable.
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Oct 30, 2012The 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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Oct 30, 2012Everything great about Neil Young, electric guitarist, is on full display, his singular tone veering from feral growls and feedback to blistering fury while the other three egg him on with subtle, perennially underrated counterpoint.
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Oct 29, 2012Psychedelic 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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Oct 29, 2012The 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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 0 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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