- Record Label: Chimera Music
- Release Date: Sep 24, 2013
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Sep 23, 2013Take Me to the Land of Hell delivers performances with the kind of weight--and lightness--that can only come from an artist entering her ninth decade.
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Sep 27, 2013Bonkers in parts it may be, but Take Me proves hugely enjoyable.
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Oct 3, 2013The fearsome, intellectual vitality of her funk-metal-electro freak-outs would surely put any teenager to shame.
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MagnetSep 20, 2013The album is singularly that of Ono's deliciously odd aesthetic. [No. 102, p.59]
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MojoSep 20, 2013Land Is Hell is alive with 21st century energy. [Oct 2013, p.96]
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Sep 23, 2013The Land Of Hell is always interesting and always moving in many directions at once. Of the artists who can pull off that kind of randomness, Ono remains pre-eminent.
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Sep 20, 2013Like most records that lack a central stylistic thrust, Take Me to the Land of Hell often resembles a great collection of tracks instead of a coherent overall work.
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Nov 7, 2013Hell is more gentle and sensitive than silly. It’s also spends more time plunging into new territory than being gentle and sensitive.
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014[The album blurs] genres with the same ease it blurs expectations. [Oct 2013, p.109]
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Sep 20, 2013It's all made without an ounce of self-consciousness, by a woman whose philosophy is neatly summed up in the intro to Bad Dancer: "When your heart is dancing, your mind is bouncing."
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The WireDec 10, 2013The album repeats and reiterates her major concerns--artistic, political--and renders them witty and endearing. [Oct 2013, p.51]
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UncutSep 20, 2013Take Me To The Land Of Hell is one of Yoko Ono's strongest efforts. [Oct 2013, p.72]
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