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Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Apr 14, 2016
    80
    With producer Shane Fontayne adding dimension and tension to the music, Nash’s first album of originals in 14 years is marked by hope and possibility shadowed by loss.
  2. Apr 11, 2016
    75
    This is a no-frills type of record that prizes style over substance.
  3. Apr 13, 2016
    70
    At times, the production carries an adult contemporary air reminiscent of Daylight Again, elsewhere it's as spare as he's ever been, and the two aesthetics blend into a record that's comforting yet not complacent. Nash is no longer looking at the past; he's looking at the future and he's embracing all the changes to come.
  4. Uncut
    Mar 25, 2016
    70
    Even when the prevailing mood of introspective understatement threatens to sink into the maudlin or overwrought, there's an urgency about This Path Tonight that keeps things buoyant. [May 2016, p.77]
  5. 70
    A gentle fleshing-out of tracks might’ve boosted it, but this is as close as the ever-youthful 74-year-old has yet come to doing an American Recordings. Autumnal, rather than valedictory.
  6. Mar 25, 2016
    70
    Actually, resigned existentialism suits Nash well on his lean, reflective new set.
  7. Apr 22, 2016
    60
    When it hits it really hits, as on the loved-up Target and the delicately hewn Myself At Last. But when it misses it really misses.
  8. 60
    Whatever his anxieties, it’s never less than gently engaging.
  9. Mojo
    Mar 25, 2016
    60
    It's a mix of acoustic and occasionally stodgy soft rock with a message of peace and positivity to all men and women. [May 2016, p.88]

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