"'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." -Rolling Stone
"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..." -Phoenix New Times
"...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." -Chicago Tribune
"The result is a freewheeling yet self-assured balance of Wynns 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." -Los Angeles Times
"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. ...its an exhilarating ride. Just close your eyes, throw your head back and smell the dust as it whips through your hair." -Philadelphia City Paper
"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." -Time Out London
"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.'" -Village Voice
"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." -Amplifier
"...a double-CD masterpiece." -Magnet
"...'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." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
"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
"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
"...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 upon it." - Cincinnati CityBeat
"...his strongest album in a decade..." - Chicago Sun-Times
"...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.'" -Time Out NY
"...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." - Toronto Eye
"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." -Boston Phoenix
"...an ambitious new entry in his discography." - Billboard
"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..." - Q
"Wynns latest, the double CD 'Here Come the Miracles', 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." - Pulse of the Twin Cities
"...Wynn's sprawling, 2-disc 'Here Come The Miracles' may well be his finest, most consistent and convincing work ever." - Iowa City Press Citizen
"...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." - Sound & Vision
"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." -NYRock.com
"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." -No Depression
"The best record of his solo career." - Cleveland Free Times
"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." -NY Press
"...the man behind the power and authority of the Dream Syndicate is still creating music that makes a difference. ... to any and everyone who truly gives a shit about rock music in all its life-affirming glory, Steve Wynn is the real deal. "Wynn has perhaps turned in his ultimate artistic statement in the form of this seminal double-CD set. With searing intensity" Wynn and band ... have hit a rich vein of magical performances among the layers of the mediocre dross that has passed for rock in the last decade. A tour de force in every sense of the expression." - PopMatters.com
"It's
a mixture of the best of Americana and the best shag of your life. Yeah, that
good, man." - Independent Underground Sound