Maggoty Lamb's guide for Young guns

Veteran music critic David Hepworth tripped himself up by slating Neil Young's new album before, apparently, listening to it properly. How can you spot unreliable reviews?Attentive readers of Alexis Petridis's well-informed and reliably waspish record reviews will have noticed that he often defines his own views in opposition to a shadowy, specialist rock-press other. These critical Aunt Sallies used to be given a clearly coded institutional introduction – "a heritage rock magazine" meant Mojo...

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