Young on the warpath

From the recording of the album in a few days in April until the publication took only a few weeks. Neil Young had promised. And the result is expected to make every friend of his Schrammel-Rocks satisfied. Critics compare the "Living With War" with "Ragged Glory" of 1990. I suppose at that time he was much more time. Nevertheless, the new LP is a highlight and a return to a tradition that had her wedding at the end of the sixties and early seventies, as in rock music day topics were covered, and they to sound credible, just had to be raw. That's "Living With War" definitely. Young does not care about the mainstream, but says that he has something to say, and he says it is equal and directly. That's very personable and credible. Even if it sometimes infantile sounds. But so infantile and flat as his previous album "Prairie Wind" in September 2005 will not necessarily. "Living With War" convinces with its content and musical unity. At 41 minutes (Young will still depend on the old LP format) he fires with a skeleton crew (guitar, bass, drums - and sometimes a trumpet) its electric fireworks from and also reminds so musically to a bygone era when " electrically "another term for was hypermodern. During the songs a bit Gospel comes in and at the end of the plate, a very beautiful, poignant and large choir, the "America Is Beautiful" sings like the Hallelujah. Fashioned Young is on this record but why not. His voice sometimes breaks away (he for some time shuns the high notes that one of his trademarks were once), but the guitar still sounds like on "Eldorado", the album that he just like "Living With War" with Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas grossed while Crazy Horse was in the garage. In the texts it attacks; not only in "Let's Impeach The President" - "Let us relieve the President of his office" (because of lies, incompetence and waste of money ...), but also the theme song ("Every day I live with the war / every day I live with kill the war in my heart ... and on the flat screen we kill and over again / and when the night comes, I pray for peace ")" and provides simple issues. Impressive as that goes to the heart.