It was some relief to fans that
Neil Young finally turned back to conventional guitar rock for the first time in five years on this album, but the relief was shortlived if only because, like
Hawks & Doves and Re-ac-tor, this proved to be a mediocre collection of songs and suggested, in a way that the genre exercises with which he'd been occupying himself did not, that he was artistically exhausted. ~ William Ruhlmann