Harvest Moon

Sound: B / Performance: A- - "...simple and subtle... Audio Magazine (2/93, p.92)

...In both music and tone, HARVEST MOON is wistful and elegiac....it's the classic-rock equivalent of a late-period Sinatra saloon-song album....comfortable, reassuring, and proudly old wave..." - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (11/13/92, p.78)

...It's a more mature, contented record, with a good deal of gentle nostalgia... Mojo (11/01, p.151)

...this unadorned folk music exudes real weight....Young at his best... Musician (12/92, p.93)

...HARVEST MOON has the same haunted sound as its predecessor....vintage Neil Young... Nerve (3/93, p.52)

Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992. Q (1/93, p.69)

4 Stars - Excellent - "...he has surrounded his meditations in some of his simplest, most gorgeous melodies in years... Q (12/92, p.141)

Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s. Q (12/99, p.74)

4 Stars - Excellent - "...sounds like the calm after the storm, with a hushed musical landscape at times populated only by a ghostly harmonica, a few spooky bass lines and Young's cracked tenor...within these spare settings, Young's search for shelter from the storm resonates like a heartbeat... Rolling Stone (11/26/92, p.71)

Highly Recommended - "...HARVEST MOON is all strummed acoustic chords, scenic choral overdubs, melodies cruising smooth as an air-conditioned limo on a two-lane blacktop. Underneath the tranquility and cosmic platitudes, there's a human highway... Spin (12/92, p.89)

Ranked #17 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992. Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5)

10 - Classic - "...Though essentially a warm, emotional album, it doesn't flinch from a realization that innocent idealism is no longer a viable commodity on mankind's futures market...HARVEST MOON may be the best work he's ever done... Vox (12/92, p.62)