Anyone who thinks Taylor Swift’s followers have an expensive time of it keeping up with her new music, rerecorded old music, concerts and films of concerts, should try being a Neil Young superfan. This is the rock veteran’s 45th album proper, but it’s also his 16th release since 2020. In just three years, he's we've had an avalanche of live collections, the long awaited arrival of his lost late Seventies album Chrome Dreams, and a 10-CD “Archives” box set that only covers the years 1972-76.
He wants you to experience all this properly as well – no filtering out your favourites allowed. He removed all of his music from Spotify in early 2022, to protest against Joe Rogan’s podcast giving a platform to Covid misinformation. On this album, any gaps between songs are barely discernible. “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece – designed to be listened to that way,” Young has said. “This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organisation, separation. Only for listening. That says it all.”
