Hints of age Mild and pleasant unsentimental

Perhaps the warm-hearted, most reflective and most balanced panel of Neil Young; instrumented consistently acoustic, beautiful arrangements, restrained speech, some songs sound gently, almost tenderly. Only "Buffalo Springfield Again" strikes a relaxed mid-tempo. "Now I is not sayin 'who was right or wrong" - no dirty laundry, no billing, no jabs, just a few fond memories of the time when you were young and wild. Neil Young manages to transpotieren this gesture pleasant unsentimental; it just sounds like a man who is at peace with his past, and which argues against such a state? The Buffalo Springfield reunion to have actually taken place in private. Hopefully everyone has had fun, but we take it at times.
"Razor Love", one of the highlights of "Silver & Gold", a love letter to Pegi Young is also a tribute to true love in: True love that survives the ups and downs and as a razor cuts through all that you be in its path. A song about the (in Youngs marriage apparently present) Magic of the lived everyday life, on security, trust and over his home-; the confession of a happily married 55-year old. Not spectacular but beautiful.
With 'Without Rings' ends the album, and the performance of this song belongs in its sublime simplicity of the most moving, ever published on Neil Young plates: Only Voice (in his speech situation, which indeed is rare) and guitar, no Harp , no overdubs. So charismatic he seldom sounded, though it indeed are tons of material of this kind, and probably again at least as much Unpublished. Almost strange that so lost a jewel on a plate so inconspicuous. And also the text I do not understand, but it is beautiful, even though at the time few beömmelten over the line 'My software's not compatible with you'.
'Silver & Gold' runs in the face of more prominent albums in Neil Young's back catalog always a little risk of being insufficiently perceived 'wrongly. If you can live with hints of a certain age gentleness and not only the militant, restless and agitated Neil Young would have to explore this record for themselves, and definitely worthwhile.