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- Summary: The Canadian singer-songwriter and Promise Of The Real return for a third full-length collaboration following 2015's The Monsanto Years and the 2016 live album, Earth.
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- Record Label: Reprise
- Genre(s): Folk-Rock, Pop/Rock
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Nov 29, 2017It is curiously and enjoyably irregular.
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Dec 8, 2017Promise Of The Real--ie, Willie Nelson’s son Lukas et al--prove superb foils for this sludge guitar god/master melody maker, hence the harmony-rich chorus of Already Great sounds exactly that immediately, and the horn-bolstered power-chords of resistance anthem Children Of Destiny are just breathtaking.
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Dec 21, 2017Diggin’ A Hole is scratchy blues; Almost Always could have graced Harvest Moon; Stand Tall and Children Of Destiny are earworms; but if you want beauty, you’ve got it on Carnival, once the cackling stops. Neil Young is reborn, yet again.
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Dec 4, 2017[The] sense of cranky rage and ageless idealism are all over The Visitor.
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Dec 5, 2017If Young’s recent work has felt like a series of hard-headed dives into his pet obsessions--more interesting for simply existing than for actually listening to--then The Visitor is more all-encompassing, and as a result, more centered.
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Dec 4, 2017It shouldn’t work, but pleasingly, most of it does, thanks to the conviction of Young’s delivery.
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Nov 29, 2017As the album proceeds, it frays apart as Neil’s gaze shifts to bombs and babies in the plodding anthem “Children Of Destiny”, and to Mexican fairground fantasy in the ludicrous cod-Santana-style “Carnival”. Despite similarly sluggish, slouchy manner, young backing band Promise Of The Real fall some way short of the full Crazy Horse, trudging rather than imposing a sense of implacable destiny.
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Positive: 0 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2
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