NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE
Colorado REPRISE
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
8/10
T’S now seven years since Psychedelic Pill, Young’s last album with Crazy Horse, a hiatus during which Young has cycled at speed through a number of albums that have often felt like haphazard reports from a restless, hyperactive mind. There has been a no-fi collection of cover versions, an orchestral album, two rangy records with Promise Of The Real, a shaggy solo outing and a film soundtrack; not to mention several retrospective endeavours that have offered tantalising glimpses of the long-anticipated Archives 2 motherlode. One of the greater pleasures in this occasionally exasperating flurry of activity has been the return of the doughty Crazy Horse, reconvened first for live dates last May, with Nils Lofgren replacing a now retired Poncho Sampedro. Fortuitously, the persistent, heroic sense of purpose that has sustained the Horse, on and off, for a good four
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