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Sleeps With Angels
Sleeps With Angels

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Though it once again reunites him with
Crazy Horse
and includes such typical
rock
workouts as the lengthy
"Change Your Mind"
and the raucous
"Piece of Crap,"
Sleeps With Angels
is more musically varied than most of
Neil Young
's albums with his erstwhile backup group, ranging from piano-based
ballads
like the album opener,
"My Heart,"
and closer,
"A Dream That Can Last,"
which might have fit on
After the Gold Rush
, to the
country-folk
"Train of Love,"
which sounds like a leftover from
Harvest Moon
, and the hard-edged
grunge
of the title track. The
influence comes in the songs' structural simplicity and the unpolished playing. Though musically diverse,
is a song cycle in which
Young
repeats the same themes and images. To put it simply, the album is about death, presumably primarily the suicide of
Nirvana
's
Kurt Cobain
, which occurred while it was being recorded. From
which declares, "It's not too late" and "Somehow, someone has a dream come true," to
which declares, "There's a better life for me someday,"
begins and ends with a shaky, uncertain optimism, even though his language is riddled with references to violence, especially gunfire, and desperation. As in the album's title, even the references to sleep and dreams are about death.
repeats some of the same lines from song to song and sometimes the same music (
"Western Hero"
and
"Train of Love"
have the same tune). The album thus has a tired, mournful feel that is both compelling and off-putting.
had not investigated such forbidding territory since the days of
Tonight's the Night
On the Beach
, and
is on a par with those often harrowing works. ~ William Ruhlmann
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