CD Reviews

Neil Young
Chrome Dreams II
(Reprise)

Although it features a serial Roman numeral, Neil Young's "Chrome Dreams II" is less a sequel to than a mirror image of the original "Chrome Dreams." ... Read more at Variety.

When last we heard from Neil Young, he was busily excoriating the Bush administration on last year’s “Living With War,” an album both scathing and deeply poignant. Young changes direction some on his latest, the sequel to an album that never came out. ... Read more at the Hartford Courant.

Although I consider myself a pretty major Neil Young fan, I will be the first to admit that there are large chunks of his catalog that are -- shall we say -- "spotty." ... Read more at The Boston Globe.

If Neil Young has been consistently inconsistent throughout his career, he is rarely as all over the map on the same album as he is on "Chrome Dreams II," named akin to a 1976 album that never materialized. ... Read more at Billboard.

The great lost Chrome Dreams was the original home of "Powderfinger" and "Like a Hurricane." ... Read more at Rolling Stone.