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| | Neil Young: Prairie Wind: Pitchfork Record Review |
 | | Yet Young's music is so rooted in the past, specifically the spirit of the 60s, that his stabs at contemporary relevance sound awkward and even curmudgeonly, as on "No Wonder" when he refers to "America the Beautiful" as "that song from 9/11" and quotes Chris Rock. |
 | | But maybe Young is aware of it: "I try to tell the people," he sings on the title track, "But they never hear a word I say/ They say there's nothin' out there but wheat field anyway." He sounds pretty frustrated, but Prairie Wind mostly is frustrating. |
 | | The second live release in Neil Young's long-awaited and now briskly paced Archives series, is a stark, fragile solo performance, an abrupt shift from last year's Live at Fillmore East, a disc of barnstorming distortion-pedal epics recorded with Crazy Horse. |
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