With material largely taken from Neil Young's Living With War album, this patchy but occasionally incendiary document of CSNY's recent tour has enough righteous anger to shame rockers half their age.

Young's old muckers lend moral support and bring a symbolic weight rather than any significant musical colour; Young must have felt the idea of getting the gang back together would make the message ("Hey! Our leaders are still shafting us, just like they did in the sixties!") more potent. While I'm sure he's right - the four of them together probably strike a deeper chord with a certain demographic than Young alone - it's Old Neil's inexhaustible energy and rage which drives the whole thing.

As was the problem with Living With War, some of the songs, in their eagerness to drill the message home, come across as mawkish - a by-product of the speed at which  they were conceived, rehearsed and recorded - but it's this same bluntness which gives Deja Vu, released on Young's longtime label Reprise, its most potent moments.

'Let's Impeach The President' is the highpoint: raucous, dangerous, fizzing with righteous anger, it's an electrifying five minutes of rock 'n' roll passion eliciting a crowd reaction that will make you bristle. It's testament to Neil Young's vitality that the newer tracks ('After The Garden' and 'Roger And Out' sound truly heavy with lament) hit harder than the old classics ('Teach Your Children' and 'For What It's Worth' seem functional).

I don't know how much effect this album has had politically, if any. But while today's superstars take three years to make their next turd of a record, it's encouraging to hear someone who still believes in the power of rock and roll knocking stuff out with a sense of urgency.  Long may the fire in Neil's belly burn. (Adam Hell)