This "Back to Black" reissue of "Walls and Bridges" is excellent in my opinion! The remaster sounds great and the presentation is top notch, including the unique fold out jacket, printed inner sleeve and a booklet of lyrics and John's artwork. It's not what makes him feel good. Walls and Bridges received a mixed response from contemporary music critics, although it still garnered Lennon his most favourable reviews since Imagine. Walls and Bridges shows John Lennon to be as mercurial as ever. There's just as much of him here as there was on "Plastic Ono Band". It is not as dramatic as Plastic Ono Band, nor is it as popular as Imagine, nor as sad and tragic as the circumstances surrounding Double Fantasy. Walls and Bridges seems to be one album that often gets lost in the John Lennon collection. Lennon 's personal life was scattered, so it isn't surprising that Walls and Bridges is a mess itself, containing equal amounts of brilliance and nonsense.

In some respects, "Walls and Bridges" is John Lennon's most fascinating solo project. Buy Walls and Bridges. Read and write album reviews for Walls & Bridges - John Lennon on AllMusic Still, this fifth post-Beatles album by Lennon (which he self-produced) is unique in its production and arrangements with a decidedly “modern” sound which … As far as I know this is an exact reproduction of the original besides the newly remastered audio, so unless you're looking for the original master you can't go …

Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone magazine said he felt that songs on side two such as "#9 Dream" and "Surprise Surprise" make the album "diverse and spirited", but that side one's songs about Lennon's emotional loss were inconsistent. On this record, John is trying to figure his life out and where he is at the present time. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Walls and Bridges was recorded during John Lennon 's infamous "lost weekend," as he exiled himself in California during a separation from Yoko Ono . Gone completely are Lennon's activist tendencies.