
- Summary: Recorded over four days, the 37th full-length studio release for the Canadian singer-songwriter features Jim Keltner on drums and Paul Bushnell on bass.
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- Record Label: Reprise
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 19
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Mixed: 12 out of 19
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Negative: 2 out of 19
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Dec 5, 2016While it may not be the most musically involved album of his 50-year career, it’s persuasive evidence that Young still has a lot to offer.
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Dec 8, 2016While the songs on Peace Trail are unquestionably timely and occasionally poignant, Young’s songwriting-as-immediate-response sometimes fails him.
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Dec 21, 2016All too often, though, Peace Trail sounds like another case of Young chucking half-formed ideas at the wall to see if anything might stick before moving on to yet another project. That said, there are genuinely powerful moments here that promise of better things to come.
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MojoNov 29, 2016While hats should be tipped for the sentiments expressed, with less urgency to make his point and more time spent on making it listenable the message might have stood a chance of reaching a few more ears. [Jan 2017, p.96]
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Dec 12, 2016Young remains a treasure because he refuses to bow to convention, and his inherent distrust of studio sugarcoating or polishing has led to some of the rawest, most powerful music of our time. But it can also lead to slapdash projects such as this one.
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Dec 5, 2016While we give Young a pass for getting new music out, and worthwhile moments are scattered throughout these 10 tunes (that don’t break 40 minutes), just as often you’ll lunge for the track-skip button in exasperation of hearing a major talent and unquestioned cultural icon who has spread himself too thin.
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Dec 2, 2016Now and then you get a glimpse of ideas that could’ve made the album more powerful if they’d been further explored. ... But the songs are so spiritless and phoned-in that those moments are too little, too late.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 6 out of 9
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