Neil Young - Earth Reviews (Critic Reviews & Scores)

Rating: 72/100 - Based on 6 Critics

88 - Paste Magazine
Earth is an engaging, highly credible recording that burns with a fire of its own. From beginning to end, it is brave, uncompromising, cracked up and beautiful.
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75 - Allmusic
Neil Young used his union with the Promise of the Real -- the gangly crew fronted by Willie Nelson's kids Lukas and Micah -- to tackle weighty social problems on The Monsanto Years, a record supported by a relatively expansive tour. Earth, a double album culled from 2015 performances, goes one further, mining ecologically minded Young tunes and then addressing them to mother earth herself.
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70 - Rolling Stone
These performances are more urgent, in point and force, than Young's 2015 studio manifesto, The Monsanto Years.
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70 - Classic Rock Magazine
At first it’s disorientating, but gradually--it’s 90 minutes long--it becomes mesmeric, relaxing and not unlike a Laurie Anderson or Brian Eno ‘sound installation’.
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67 - Entertainment Weekly
In many places, Young squeezed the squawks and yelps into the center of the songs, creating surprisingly fine hooks. Three songs from Monsanto turn up here, in versions far angrier, and sharper than the studio takes. The rest of the set cherry-picks environmental songs from throughout Young’s catalogue.
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65 - Pitchfork
It may not go down as one of Neil’s definitive works, but Earth achieves something Young hasn’t been able to accomplish on record in a while: he's made an album worth spending some time with.
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Track Listing
CD1:
01. Mother Earth (5:41)
02. Seed Justice (3:58)
03. My Country Home (6:03)
04. The Monsanto Years (8:21)
05. Western Hero (4:04)
06. Vampire Blues (5:56)
07. Hippie Dream (5:55)
08. After The Gold Rush (4:10)
09. Human Highway (4:12)

CD2:
01. Big Box (9:21)
02. People Want to Hear About Love (5:20)
03. Wolf moon (6:31)
04. Love and Only Love (28:04)

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