Neil Young and Daniel Lanois Combine

Neil Young recently announced on his Facebook page that his new Daniel Lanois produced album will be out on September 28.

Said Young, “Le Noise” is complete. It is a solo record. Playbacks are happening now. Release date is September 28th. It will be available in Vinyl, CD and I tunes in the first edition, followed by Blu-Ray, and an APP for I-Phone and I-Pad a month or so later. The app will be free. It gives you an interactive album cover. Forgive my use of the word “album”. I am old school. When you buy the songs/movies from I- tunes they show up in your APP.”

David Crosby had spoken to Rolling Stone magazine about the album a couple of months ago. “Neil told me last week that he was having a great time talking music with him and just relating to him,” said Crosby of Young’s collaboration with Lanois.

“He does that [solo acoustic] thing probably better than anybody,” added Crosby in the Rolling Stone piece. “One of my most favorite concerts of his was him at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. He had a circle of his guitars around him and a chair, and he walked out there and sang. It was mesmerizing. He’s a fantastic musician, but also a great storyteller. I was standing there in the wings with Bob Dylan. He and I are huge Neil fans, and we didn’t move. We stood there the entire concert and just watched. We were as mesmerized as much as the audience was.”

Young and Lanois have crossed paths musically over the course of many years, including Lanois’ performances at Young’s Bridge School Benefit Concert and Young’s performance at Farm Aid when Lanois was Willie Nelson’s music director, but this is the first time the two have recorded together.

The album was recorded in Daniel Lanois’ home in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles and  features Young on acoustic and electric guitars with Lanois adding sonic textures as only he can do.

The Los Angeles Times have already previewed the album and wrote : “What’s striking about Le Noise is the way it both summarizes and distills Young’s singular approach to music, predominantly just Neil and a guitar: his big, white hollow-body Gretsch electric slashing and burning for most of the tracks, a couple built around picked and strummed acoustic instruments. Both are recorded and amplified — literally and metaphorically — by Lanois’ signature soundscapes that loop vocals, and enhance the guitars’ bass notes through distortion boxes, synthesizers and other electronics.”

Sounds promising to say the least.

The track-listing for Le Noise:

Walk With Me
Sign of Love
Rescue Me
Love And War
Angry World
Hitchhiker
Peaceful Valley Blvd.
Rumblin