Album Press

• Independant Underground Sound

  "It's a mixture of the best of Americana and the best shag of your life. Yeah, that good, man"more
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• London Times

  "Songwriterly maturity merges with psychedelic power surges. But be warned: buy this record and prepare for an expensive outlay on Wynn's back catalogue."more
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• Time Out NY

  "...Wynn tears through the songs with great purpose and passion. He's always been a moody son-of-a-bitch but on this record he reaches moments of wisdom, introspection and spiritual enlightenment unexplored on his past albums. ...The songs are littered with grim scenes of self-destruction, booze, pills, fast cars, sad characters and other 'assorted miseries,' but the album concludes with a hopefulmore
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• San Francisco Bay Guardian

  "...'Here Come The Miracles,' the masterful new double album from ex-Dream yndicate leader Steve Wynn...gives us an L.A. soaked with grime, skank, and growl. Wynn's Los Angeles is a Byrds- and X-haunted mecca for squinting, imperfect souls who are buying time but, as Wynn sings on 'Death Valley Rain,' 'got no place to put it' and who have themore
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• Village Voice

  "Mr. Wynn, who's been bringing his brainy, pop-fueled songcraft to the minimasses since his days in the Paisley Underground with Dream Syndicate, has a groovy new album out, 'Here Come the Miracles.'"more
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• Time Out London

  "A work of grit and grind and pith and pop, pretty jangle and beauty bomp, shifting structure and melodic suss. Great songs, gloriously delivered. This is likely Wynn's masterpiece.... just get this, get this, get this."more
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• Q

  "...Wynn's sprawling, 2-disc 'Here Comes The Miracles' may well be his finest, most consistent and convincing work ever." - Iowa City Press Citizen "He's rarely sounded more driven... dusting off his best Lou Reed/Neil Young/Bob Mould moves, it's an airtight collection of jagged guitar manoeuvres..."more
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• Chicago Sun-Time

  "...his strongest album in a decade..."more
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• Chicago Tribune

  "Sounding alternately combative and remorseful, Wynn flavors his tales with organ-fueled garage rock, sweet Brill Building pop, slinky R&B grooves, Neil Young crunch, Lou Reed noise and Dylan-esque brooding. Whatever the style, though, Wynn approaches it with the energetic abandon of his first musical love."more
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• Chicago Tribune

  "...an impressively consistent 2-CD set that ranks with his very best. Rather than forge new ground, Wynn casts a wide-angle spotlight on his considerable skills, from his tuneful, classically resonant songwriting to his thoughtful arranging to his multifaceted guitar playing. ...'Here Come the Miracles' proves that Wynn's a genuine rock renaissance man."more
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• Billboard

  "...an ambitious new entry in his discography."more
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• Boston Phoenix

  "It's his most assured work in years, a dazzling display of inspiration, intent, and execution that, from the opening garage-fuzz guitar notes of the title track, recalls the nocturnal grandeur of Dream Syndicate's 1982 landmark LP, 'The Days of Wine and Roses.'"more
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• No Depression

  Wynn fires back with both barrels blazing....Wynn's nineteen-song cycle of
  a Southern California suspended between the millennium and the apocalypse
  infuses his literary aspirations with rock 'n' roll smarts, as if he's
  fronting Raymond Chandler's supercharged garage band.
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• Q

  He's rarely sounded more driven... dusting off his best Lou Reed/Neil
  Young/Bob Mould moves, it's an airtight collection of jagged guitar
  manoeuvres...more
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• Billboard

  ...an ambitious new entry in his discography.
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• Boston Phoenix

  It's his most assured work in years, a dazzling display of inspiration,
  intent, and execution that, from the opening garage-fuzz guitar notes of the
  title track, recalls the nocturnal grandeur of Dream Syndicate's 1982
  landmark LP, 'The Days of Wine and Roses.'
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• Chicago Sun Times

  ...his strongest album in a decade...
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• Chicago Tribune

  Sounding alternately combative and remorseful, Wynn flavors his tales with
  organ-fueled garage rock, sweet Brill Building pop, slinky R&B grooves, Neil
  Young crunch, Lou Reed noise and Dylan-esque brooding. Whatever the style,
  though, Wynn approaches it with the energetic abandon of his first musical
  love.
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• San Francisco Bay Guardian

  ...'Here Come The Miracles,' the masterful new double album from ex-Dream
  Syndicate leader Steve Wynn...gives us an L.A. soaked with grime, skank, and
  growl. Wynn's Los Angeles is a Byrds- and X-haunted mecca for squinting,
  imperfect souls who are buying time but, as Wynn sings on 'Death Valley
  Rain,' 'got no place to put it' and who have the 'Crawling Misanthropic
  Blues' because they want to be free but can't be.
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• Magnet

  ...a double-CD masterpiece.
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• Amplifier

  From the fuzz-drenched opening chords of the title track, it is apparent
  that Steve Wynn has come to this new album with a fully rocked arsenal. ?it
  may also stand as his most viscerally satisfying. ?a soundtrack that
  alternately blisters and smolders.
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• Village Voice

  Mr. Wynn, who's been bringing his brainy, pop-fueled songcraft to the mini
  masses since his days in the Paisley Underground with Dream Syndicate, has a
  groovy new album out, 'Here Come the Miracles.'
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• Time Out London

  A work of grit and grind and pith and pop, pretty jangle and beauty bomp,
  shifting structure and melodic suss. Great songs, gloriously delivered.
  This is likely Wynn's masterpiece.... just get this, get this, get this.
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• Philadelphia City

  The wide-ranging double CD... surges and sputters like a rattletrap
  speeding through the desert, praying for one more gas station past the last
  chance. ...it's an exhilarating ride. Just close your eyes, throw your head
  back and smell the dust as it whips through your hair.
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• Los Angeles Times

  The result is a freewheeling yet self-assured balance of Wynn's own voice
  and the influences long associated with him - the darkness of the Velvet
  Underground, the spaciousness of Neil Young and the oblique introspection of
  Bob Dylan.
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• Chicago Tribune

  ...an impressively consistent 2-CD set that ranks with his very best.
  Rather than forge new ground, Wynn casts a wide-angle spotlight on his
  considerable skills, from his tuneful, classically resonant songwriting to
  his thoughtful arranging to his multifaceted guitar playing. ...'Here Come
  the Miracles' proves that Wynn's a genuine rock renaissance man.
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• Phoenix New Times

  The culmination of four decades of music making, "Miracles"is a grand,
  sumptuous statement, simultaneously forward looking and anchored by
  nostalgia. It is, quite simply, the best album of the year... a sprawling,
  career-defining, double-disc opus...
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• Rolling Stone

  'Miracles' is a nineteen-song bundle of what you've been missing: snarling
  prairie-wolf guitars circling Wynn's cutting yowl in the title bullet;
  roaming-dog blues like 'Sunset to the Sea' that sound like Townes Van Zandt
  hitchhiking with Crazy Horse.....If there is any justice left in rock,
  "Miracles"will be [Wynn's] big payback.
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• Cleveland Free Times

  "The best record of his solo career."more
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• NY Rock

  "The short space here can't really give it the credit it's due, but if you buy one CD this year, for God's sake, make it this one."more
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• NY Press

  "Wynn has never abandoned the Neil Young influence, but this album easily smokes any Young offering since Freedom...this ambitious offering is 'atmospheric' enough to keep rebounding in my head all summer long."more
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• NYRock.com

  "The maturity and complexity of the songwriting and the arrangements show Wynn as a rare performer who has aged like a fine wine. ...if you buy just one CD this year, for God's sake, make it this one."more
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• Sound & Vision

  "...this ambitious two-disc set -- with all the expected Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Neil Young influences intact -- is probably his most consistent effort, thanks to a sympathetic band and exceptionally sharp songwriting."more
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• Philadelphia City Paper

  "The wide-ranging double CD... surges and sputters like a rattletrap speeding through the desert, praying for one more gas station past the last chance. ...it's an exhilarating ride. Just close your eyes, throw your head back and smell the dust as it whips through your hair."more
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• Pulse of the Twin Cities

  "Wynn's latest, the double CD 'Here Come the Miracles' (Down There Records), may be the finest of his reasonably prolific solo career. Shades of Dylan and Reed still haunt his voice, but his songwriting takes an outright catchy, hook-filled edge."more
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• Cincinnati CityBeat

  "...perhaps the greatest neo-psychedelic record in eons, 'Here Come the Miracles' [is] a work of fuzzed-out beauty..." - Minneapolis City Pages "...'Miracles' is a sprawling, squalling AltRock epic, at once a validation of everything Wynn has attempted in his solo career, as well as an expansion upomore
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• Columbus Alive

  "The music... is forward-thinking. Wynn claims this was the most fun he ever had making a record, and it shows. The songwriting and production quirks are the most ambitious of his career." - Columbus Dispatch "'Here Comes the Miracles' is an album that not every artist has in them. Thankfully Wynn did."more
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• Rolling Stone

  "'Miracles' is a nineteen-song bundle of what you've been missing: snarling prairie-wolf guitars circling Wynn's cutting yowl in the title bullet; roaming-dog blues like 'Sunset to the Sea' that sound like Townes Van Zandt hitchhiking with Crazy Horse.....If there is any justice left in rock, Miracles will be (Wynn's) big payback"more
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• Gadfly Online

  ...Here Come The Miracles is possibly the best thing he's done since The Days Of Wine And Roses....In a just world, the anthemic "There Will Come A Day" would be a hit single...more
  posted: 2002-00-00

• Fufkin.com

  Steve Wynn's latest work, a double disc that will be released soon, has a gorgeous hook-drenched and jangly psych pop tune, "Shades Of Blue." The rest of the 18 songs represent an upbeat and fresh evolution on Steve's Paisley Underground heritage. Few indie pop veterans are capable of this type of talent surge.
  posted: 2001-05-00

• Sex and Guts Magazine

  It is One Man's California Hell, and it's there's never been a window into those regions that rang true quite like Here Come The Miracles does.more
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• KindMuzik.NET

  I don't remember an album of the ex-Dream Syndicate frontman with so much fine psychedelia in it.more
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• The Independent Weekly

  However, with the release of his double album, Here Come the Miracles, Wynn's reach has finally attained the heights hinted at by his seminal Dream Syndicate slab Days of Wine and Roses.
  B Y C H R I S P A R K E Rmore
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• Fazed.com

  Here Come the Miracles is a brilliant summation of the spirit that has driven Wynn's career, without question one of the best albums of 2001, and, above all, further evidence of the strange power music can hold over us.more
  posted: 2002-01-17

• Powepop.org

  1. Steve Wynn - Here Come The Miracles
  The former Dream Syndicate frontman fired on all cylinders with this one - Shake It Up's Album Of The Year. Here Come The Miracles was a bold and brazen rock and roll journey that covered more territory than Wynn ever has. Backed by an exceptional band, Wynn takes elements of early Tom Waits and Neil Young sounds and created something equally powerful and lasting on this sprawling 2-CD set.
  
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• Toronto Eye

  1. Steve Wynn, Here Come the Miracles (Down There): For my money, America's
  greatest rock 'n' roller -- like having Dream Syndicate, Neil, Lou and Bob D.
  all in one package. Horseshoe gig was gravity-defying, too.
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• Biloxi Sun-Hearld

  "Here Come the Miracles," Steve Wynn (Blue Rose) - This double CD is the best psychedelic album in years
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• Sound & Vision

  #8--Journeyman songsmith delivers a two-disc career high
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• Boston Herald

  Wynn's
  disc has better guitars; tunes don't quite match up.
  more
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• Magnet

  When the flash flood of scotch and gasoline finally
  subsides, a career-defining double album blossoms like a century plant in the
  desert sand.more
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• Top 10 lists in 2001 : MAGNET,TORONTO EYE,PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER,BILOXI, SUN-HERALD,BOSTON HERALD,ROLLING STONE ONLINE,ROLLING STONE (Germany),SOUND AND VISION,TOAST,GADFLY, SCRAMmore
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• Philadelphia Enquirer

  Steve Wynn's 'Miracles' is an unexpected gift
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• London Times

  Songwriterly maturity merges with psychedelic power surges. But be
  warned: buy this record and prepare for an expensive outlay on Wynn's back
  catalogue.
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• NY Press

  Wynn has never abandoned the Neil Young influence, but this album easily
  smokes any Young offering since Freedom...this ambitious offering is
  'atmospheric' enough to keep rebounding in my head all summer long.
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• Cleveland Free Times

  The best record of his solo career.
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• NYRock.com

  The maturity and complexity of the songwriting and the arrangements show
  Wynn as a rare performer who has aged like a fine wine. ...if you buy just
  one CD this year, for God's sake, make it this one.
  posted:

• Sound & Vision

  ...this ambitious two-disc set -- with all the expected Bob Dylan, Lou
  Reed, and Neil Young influences intact -- is probably his most consistent
  effort, thanks to a sympathetic band and exceptionally sharp songwriting.
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• Columbus Alive

  'Here Comes the Miracles' is an album that not every artist has in them.
  Thankfully Wynn did.
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• Iowa City Press Citizen

  ..Wynn's sprawling, 2-disc 'Here Comes The Miracles' may well be his
  finest, most consistent and convincing work ever.
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• Pulse of the Twin Cities

  Wynn's latest, the double CD 'Here Come the Miracles' (Down There Records),
  may be the finest of his reasonably prolific solo career. Shades of Dylan
  and Reed still haunt his voice, but his songwriting takes an outright
  catchy, hook-filled edge.
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• Toronto Eye

  ...he came away with the record of his career. "Here Come The Miracles" is
  one of those rare records that grows more compelling with each run-through
  of its 19 songs.
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• Time Out NY

  ...Wynn tears through the songs with great purpose and passion. He's always
  been a moody son-of-a-bitch but on this record he reaches moments of wisdom,
  introspection and spiritual enlightenment unexplored on his past albums.
  ...The songs are littered with grim scenes of self-destruction, booze,
  pills, fast cars, sad characters and other 'assorted miseries,' but the
  album concludes with a hopeful message on the glorious closing track, the
  spiritual 'There Will Come a Day.'
  posted:

• Cincinnati City Beat

  ...'Miracles' is a sprawling, squalling AltRock epic, at once a validation
  of everything Wynn has attempted in his solo career, as well as an expansion
  upon it.
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• Minneapolis City Pages

  ...perhaps the greatest neo-psychedelic record in eons, 'Here Come the
  Miracles' [is] a work of fuzzed-out beauty...
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• Columbus Dispatch

  The music... is forward-thinking. Wynn claims this was the most fun he ever
  had making a record, and it shows. The songwriting and production quirks are
  the most ambitious of his career.
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• Gaffa (Denmark)

  Steve has made his best album since Kerosene Manmore
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• Svenska Dagbladet

  Wynn Är en fin sånglyriker, med pregnanta betraktelser om ett liv som ofta Är på vÄg åt ett annat håll. more
  posted: 2001-03-16