Living With War is instantly the most incisive and penetrating album that Young has released in years, and it is arguably the most vital of his career.  Full text...

Living with War was recorded barely a month ago, with four of the nine original songs written during the urgent sessions. And yes, the result is rough-around-the-edges ... and easily the best Neil Young album in a quarter of a century.  Full text...

The power-trio arrangements have a let-it-rip simplicity; the lyrics are like stream-of-consciousness postings.  Full text...

Young charges the current president and his administration with, among other things, lying, spying, waging war with no right or reason and dereliction of duty to the nation's founding ideals. He then calls for the most extreme judgment available to the American people in "Let's Impeach the President," with rusty-fuzz guitar, the righteous muscle of a hundred-strong choir, a trumpet playing "Taps" and the self-incriminating voice of Bush himself.  Full text...

Neil Young is rock's great floating voter.  Full text...

For all its faults - and there are many - if this record can move just one red-stater to look at Seymour Hirsch's exposé on Cheneyco's already mobilized plans for attacking Iran and call hir congressperson, it's succeeded well past Young's wildest dreams.  Full text...

From a musical perspective, Living With War's short gestation benefits Young's performance, inspiring him to make his loudest, rawest release of new material since at least Ragged Glory, maybe even Rust Never Sleeps.  Full text...

Living With War is proof that those voices, which have been somewhat quiet in recent years, are rising once again.  Full text...

It’s a direct shot into the national discourse from a rock world that has been largely silent until recently.  Full text...

Young's style throughout is a kind of lumbering, declamatory rock he refers to as "metal folk". It's in the vein of his work with Crazy Horse, and a powerful sound at its best, but singularly lacks the infectious charm of a song like "Rockin' in the Free World".  Full text...