Neil Young took a unique approach with his recent release, Storytone, and recorded an album with help from a full orchestra.
The "Heart of Gold" singer recently shared a video from the studio that features the recording of new song "Glimmer," a ballad that tugs at your heartstrings with lyrics such as these:
Like a forest without leaves on it's trees standing in the desert
Like the light that still leaks through when you close the door
Like the changes in our life that hit so hard
That day I couldn't find you
There's a glimmer of everything good that once came before
Check out the performance here (via Billboard):
In the most random news of the day, Young got torn a new one by Jeff Tweedy's son, Spencer, in a review for the hip-hop album Run The Jewels 2.
Here's the damage:
Neil Young is an out-of-touch motherf---er. This probably isn't news to you, but if you watched him on the Colbert Report, you were probably reacquainted with that long-known but sometimes-forgotten reality. Neil Young, while being a pioneer, a badass, and the subject of one of Jimmy Fallon's best impersonations, is kinda nuts.
He's harmless in his love of eco-modded classic cars, his cluelessness about high-fidelity portable audio (see Pono), and his outspokenness about natural gas fracking (which, for the record, is really bad). But that's exactly what makes his modern song of protest so hard to swallow as protest: it's harmless. At another point in the country's history, when late-night hosts were conservative and American youth were the restless, repressed victims of their nuclear families, to see a personality like Neil Young's on TV would have been moving - and it was (I'm told). But now, on Colbert, when 400,000 people just rallied in New York in support of climate change legislation, and when Nobel Prize winners, the U.N. and just about every human with any sense wants an answer to climate change, Neil Young's question, "Who's gonna stand up?" strikes with very little immediacy and too much naive self-righteousness.
Whoa, Spence. Tell us how you really feel.
Storytone dropped in late October. Check out the tracklist and stream the new album here.
