{"id":13087,"date":"2016-12-13T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13087"},"modified":"2016-12-14T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:31:12","slug":"new-music-revue-neil-youngs-still-got-it-on-peace-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/12\/13\/new-music-revue-neil-youngs-still-got-it-on-peace-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Neil Young’s still got it on Peace Trail<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Neil Young
\nPeace Trail
\n<\/em>(Reprise Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

What always sticks out most for me about Neil Young is his lyrics. On his 37th studio album, Peace Trail<\/em>, Young\u2019s words don\u2019t shy away from the political, the spiritual, and, especially, the human.<\/p>\n

Peace Trail<\/em>, which is only slightly more electric and modern than what all Young albums will forever be compared to, Harvest Moon<\/em>, echoes powerfully vague but concise lyrics, which are aesthetically wonderful and poetically pleasing (especially the last song, \u201cMy New Robot,\u201d which includes recordings of Siri ordering a robot off amazon.com). These profound, potent, thought-provoking words are complemented by Young\u2019s unique, methodical guitar-playing technique and sound.<\/p>\n

A few of the songs, such as \u201cJohn Oaks,\u201d \u201cIndian Givers,\u201d and \u201cMy Pledge,\u201d are more Bob-Dylan-performance-poem than song; it\u2019s a technique that draws light on Young\u2019s process as a writer and musician. However, the guitar is tragically misplaced on these tracks, its scratchy invasive noise feeling more like nails on a chalkboard than a six-string.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Peace Trail<\/em> doesn\u2019t have many eclectic solos interrupting Young\u2019s legendary voice, which is still easy to hear, much like the calming ring of a lazy finger around a wine glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neil Young Peace Trail (Reprise Records) 4\/5 What always sticks out most for me about Neil Young is his lyrics. On his 37th studio album, Peace Trail, Young\u2019s words don\u2019t shy away from the political, the spiritual, and, especially, the human. Peace Trail, which is only slightly more electric and modern than what all Young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13089,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions\/13089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}