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This record demands a room full of quiet and your undivided attention. Listen to it any other way and you may be disappointed, even bored, by it. And that will be your hard luck, because Silver and Gold is Neil Young at his hushed, acoustic best: simple, romantic, direct.
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Checkout.comSilver & Gold is as pretty an album as Young's created yet...
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Slight but lovely...
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A wonderfully warm recording, Silver & Gold is country-folk soaked in co-producer Ben Keith's crying pedal steel, Neil's harmonica, fiddles, acoustic guitars and even Emmylou and Linda for good measure on one cut.
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A wonderfully subtle, often moving collection of acoustic tunes that illuminates Young's incomparable tunesmithing and a voice that can deliver volumes of emotion and subtext in a simple phrase.
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A mellow, tender, easy album...
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With hushed arrangements that feature little more than acoustic guitar and piano over bass and drums, plus the occasional steel guitar or pump organ, the album is Young at his simplest and most easygoing.
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This one finds him getting almost downright sappy. But it suits him well.
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Gently acoustic, peacefully steeped in nostalgia and remembrance, it generates a warm glow of grace...
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Most of the time these low-key meditations on enduring love and friendship ring true...
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This is Young's strongest set of songs in years, but the disc just isn't compelling.
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A pleasant sound, to be sure, but not exactly what Young followers were expecting.
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These 10 well-culled copyrights, two from the '80s and only four from 2000, are something new and ominous, because they're dull. They smell of equine methane: the old-fart hegemony that fuels alt-country, AC radio, and literary anthologies canonizing Ry Cooder, Ernie K-Doe, and Spooner Oldham.
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Overall, though, this is one of those odd little albums that the ever-prolific Young comes up with periodically -- dotted with a few flashes of inspiration, ultimately sunk by a lot of by-rote artistic adequacy.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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Jan 2, 2012
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petbogSep 26, 2006
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KennyMOct 4, 2005