Here Come The Miracles

• Independant Underground Sound

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

• 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."

• 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.'"

• 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 the 'Crawling Misanthropic Blues' because they want to be free but can't be."

• 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.'"

• 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."

• 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..."

• Chicago Sun-Time

  "...his strongest album in a decade..."

• 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."

• 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."

• Billboard

  "...an ambitious new entry in his discography."

• 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.'"

• 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.

• Q

  Reviewed: July 2001 Genre: Rock Label: BLUEROSE Release Date: 23-Feb-2001 Key Tracks: Good & Bad There Will Come A Day Smash Myself To Bits **** Nineteen tracks etched across two CDs and clocking in at over 80 minutes, Here Come The Miracles is clearly Steve Wynn pushing the boat out. More to the point, he's rarely sounded more driven, reeling off his bleakly ambiguous tales like a man with limited time on his hands and several points to prove. Amazingly, there's little filler here or any of the faux folksiness that has dogged much of his solo work. Instead, dusting off his best Lou Reed/Neil Young/Bob Mould moves, it's an airtight collection of jagged guitar manoeuvres with the 12-string crackle of Good & Bad a genuine star turn. Now, if only it really was 1982 all over again... Reviewed by Peter Kane

• Billboard

  ...an ambitious new entry in his discography.

• 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.'

• Chicago Sun Times

  ...his strongest album in a decade...

• 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.

• 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.

• Magnet

  ...a double-CD masterpiece.

• 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.

• 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.'

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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.

• Cleveland Free Times

  "The best record of his solo career."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

• 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 upo

• 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."

• 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"

• Gadfly Online

  If you haven't given Steve Wynn's post-Dream Syndicate career much attention, sit up: Here Come The Miracles is possibly the best thing he's done since The Days Of Wine And... (click here for more...)

• 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.

• Sex and Guts Magazine

  In 1990, Wynn emerged from the long since faded embers of the Dream Syndicate, having ended that reign of record-store legend with a pneumatically morose 4th LP entitled Ghost Stories,... (click here for more...)

• KindMuzik.NET

  Are our beloved US guitar rockers going crazy? After Rich Hopkins called his last album "my Sgt. Pepper" and labelled it 'Devolver' in a very daring way, his buddy Steve... (click here for more...)

• The Independent Weekly

  Since the end of Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn has been steadily churning out good albums, demonstrating his facility with familiar rock idioms be they psychedelia, folk-rock or garage. However, with... (click here for more...)

• Fazed.com

  Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Garage Rock Revisited Double album. The words conjure images of ego gratification through artistic sprawl. The press bio for the Steve Wynn's Here... (click here for more...)

• 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.

• 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.

• Biloxi Sun-Hearld

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

• Sound & Vision

  #8--Journeyman songsmith delivers a two-disc career high

• Boston Herald

  BOSTON HERALD 10 Best Albums of 2001 6. Steve Wynn, "Here Come the Miracles" (Innerstate). See Ryan Adams. Wynn's disc has better guitars; tunes don't quite match up.

• Magnet

  STEVE WYNN--HERE COME THE MIRACLES Recorded in the blistering Tucson heat, Wynn's two-fisted, Hemingway-esque short stories of New York City pain and California alienation are sloshed with enough epic guitar distortion and pounding, fecund drum work to fill an Arizona box canyon. When the flash flood of scotch and gasoline finally subsides, a career-defining double album blossoms like a century plant in the desert sand.

• HERE COME THE MIRACLES has been listed as one of the top albums of the year by the following publications: MAGNET TORONTO EYE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BILOXI SUN-HERALD BOSTON HERALD ROLLING STONE ONLINE ROLLING STONE (Germany) SOUND AND VISION TOAST GADFLY SCRAM

• Philadelphia Enquirer

  Sunday, December 30, 2001 In the Mix | Dan DeLuca Steve Wynn's 'Miracles' is an unexpected gift When you hear the name Steve Wynn, you probably think of the Las... (click here for more...)

• 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.

• 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.

• Cleveland Free Times

  The best record of his solo career.

• 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.

• 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.

• Columbus Alive

  'Here Comes the Miracles' is an album that not every artist has in them. Thankfully Wynn did.

• Iowa City Press Citizen

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.'

• 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.

• Minneapolis City Pages

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

• 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.

• Gaffa (Denmark)

  Steve Wynn Here Come The Miracles (Blue Rose Records / MNW) ***** CD Udgivelse: 28. Februar, 2001 Den amerikanske rocksanger, sangskriver og... (click here for more...)

• Svenska Dagbladet

  Steve Wynn Är en musiker vars försÄljningssiffror blygsamt överstiger antalet utgivna titlar. Nu kommer han med dubbla cd-n Here comes the miracles. Även om den inte Är mirakulös, Är den vÄrd att lyssna till. Mot mullrande gitarrbakgrunder avtecknas Wynns röst: ofta nerbÄddad, ibland förvrÄngd. Men melodierna Är starka, de balanserar mullret. Och Wynn Är en fin sånglyriker, med pregnanta betraktelser om ett liv som ofta Är på vÄg åt ett annat håll.