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Q MagazineNov 13, 2014Storytone presents the same 10 songs twice: compellingly naked save for a guitar or ukulele, then dressed to kill in Hollywood strings and big band brass. [Dec 2014, p.119]
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Nov 3, 2014The vocals hold just enough honest rough spots to celebrate, everywhere else, the purity and committed fragility of Mr. Young’s voice, which is high and clear, even though he’ll be 69 on Nov. 12.
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Oct 31, 2014The orchestrations also let us focus on Young as a pure singer, rather than as a holistic musician. And he’s a remarkably effective one. In his aged, spindly whine lies a world of emotion.
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Oct 31, 2014Many of these songs convey a querulous romance, but while the orchestra a chocolatey smoothness to the sound that renders emotional complexity glossy and neat.
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Dec 8, 2014He’s crafted a tender and often forlorn eco-treatise.
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Nov 4, 2014The songs on Storytone glide between those highs and lows with very few false moves, making this one stylistic detour that takes Neil Young very close to his artistic home.
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Nov 4, 2014Certainly, the most innovative thing about Storytone is its presentation, with each of the album’s 10 songs recorded in acoustic and fully orchestrated versions.
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UncutOct 31, 2014The choral refrain of the title hook, meanwhile, imposes collectivity on the query--just about the only time on the whole of Storytone that the horizon stretches further than Neil's emotional backyard. [Dec 2014, p.79]
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Oct 31, 2014When he calls the 92-piece orchestra in, the results are mixed.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 27
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Mixed: 7 out of 27
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Negative: 8 out of 27
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