★★★★★
?????????? With his latest 'new' release, a novel collaboration with jack White, Neil Young continues to redefine the career path of the veteran rock musician, often eschewing formal releases of new original material within familiar concepts and styles (leaving those to archive titles) and instead aiming for the idiosyncratic likes of this rumination on his past...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-06-12
★★★★★
Neil Young proves he is still a contradictory character. After years
developing a method of bringing the pin-drop purity of studio-quality sound
to digital downloads, he then goes and makes a covers album using a 1947
Voice-O-Graph vinyl recording booth. Produced by Jack White, who
occasionally adds a little barroom piano to proceedings, this is about as
close as you can get to listening in sepia...
- www.telegraph.co.uk
2014-06-07
★★★★★
Neil Young has always been eccentric, but A Letter Home is his kookiest idea yet. Recorded in Jack White's 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth (not much bigger than a phone booth), the album crackles and pops through 11 lo-fi covers - mostly from the 60s - and two spoken intros addressed to Young's deceased mom. The songs are old, and the album sounds really old...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-06-05
★★★★★
Neil Young has always been eccentric, but A Letter Home is his kookiest idea yet. Recorded in Jack White's 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth (not much bigger than a phone booth), the album crackles and pops through 11 lo-fi covers - mostly from the 60s - and two spoken intros addressed to Young's deceased mom.
The songs are old, and the album sounds really old...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2014-06-06
★★★★★
Tweet Good Folk Sans Gimmick Neil Young's thirty-fifth studio album A Letter Home is the kind of album reviewers need to approach with an extreme sense of caution. While Young's name is prone to inspire awe within the folk genre and makes it easy for anyone to write off a release as excellent due to Young's musical skill and timeless vocal charm, his vision on Letter deserves scrutiny, in any case...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-05-30
★★★★★
IT'S PROBABLY YOUNG'S IDEA of a joke that, despite all the column inches pertaining to Pono, his high definition digital music player, his latest is a lo-fi affair recorded mono sans overdubs in a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth. At root, it's a heartwarming little curio - not least because its resonant cover versions are prefaced by Young talking to his late mother Edna and promising, "I'll be there eventually, but I still have a lot of work to do [down] here...
- www.mojo4music.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
Label:
Third Man
Release Date:
26/05/2014
FOLLOW TRISTAN BATH
FOLLOW NEIL YOUNG
To say my eyebrows were raised to the point of nearly flying straight off my skull and embedding directly into the ceiling of the 87 bus upon first listening to A Letter Home would barely be an understatement...
- drownedinsound.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
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Release Date: May 27, 2014Label: Reprise
"What the hell?!?" is an appropriate first response to Neil Young's A Letter Home. Not for its content: Echoing Bob Dylan's Self Portrait, Young covers 11 songs that mean a lot to him with tender, unfeigned affection. Less straightforward is how they're presented...
- www.spin.com
2014-05-29
★★★★★
To say my eyebrows were raised to the point of nearly flying straight off my skull and embedding directly into the ceiling of the 87 bus upon first listening to would barely be an understatement. There's been an onslaught of anti-mp3 propaganda that's been spewing from the camp of late - adorning the pages of his 2012 autobiography, , spilling over into the lyrics on that same year (" "), and quite literally kickstarting his Pono project with over $6 million raised via crowdfunding...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-05-28