Psychedelic Pill
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| Studio album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse | ||||
| Released | October 30, 2012 November 19, 2012 (Blu-ray Audio) |
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| Recorded | 2012 | |||
| Studio | Audio Casa Blanca, Broken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, California | |||
| Genre | Rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, folk rock | |||
| Length | 87:41 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Neil Young, John Hanlon and Mark Humphreys | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| A.V. Club | A- |
| The Boston Globe | (favorable) |
| Chicago Sun-Times | |
| NME | (8/10) |
| Paste Magazine | (9.0/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.0/10) |
| PopMatters |   |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin | (7/10) |
| Sputnikmusic | (4.5/5) |
| Uncut | (favorable) |
Psychedelic Pill is the thirty-third studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on October 30, 2012. It is the second collaboration between Young and Crazy Horse released in 2012 (the first being Americana) and their first original work together since the Greendale album and tour in 2003 and 2004. The album was streamed on Young's website on October 24, 2012, and leaked onto the Internet the same day.
A Blu-ray Audio version of the album, with 24-bit/192kHz resolution and two bonus tracks, was released November 19, 2012. A vinyl version is also available.
At 87 minutes in length, Psychedelic Pill is Neil Young's longest album and his only studio album to span two discs. Many of the songs on the album came out of extended jam sessions with Crazy Horse while recording Americana, released earlier in 2012. Three of Psychedelic Pill's nine tracks are more than 15 minutes in length. The album was recorded at Young's ranch in Redwood City, California.
The opening track "Driftin' Back" makes references to Young's new memoir Waging Heavy Peace and his disdain for MP3s in between segments of extended jamming. Another of the album's extended tracks, "Walk Like a Giant", laments the failure of his generation to change the world for the better ("We were ready to save the world / But then the weather changed"). Elsewhere on the album Young recalls listening to Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and The Grateful Dead on the radio ("Twisted Road"), and his Canadian roots ("Born in Ontario"). A review of the album for Rolling Stone noted that the riff and lyrics of the title track share similarities with Young's previous work such as "Cinnamon Girl". The main riff is borrowed from Young's "Sign of Love". That track also features the recording filtered with a phaser effect, giving it a "psychedelic" feel (although the alternate mix removes the effect).
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