Neil Young - Before and After 2023

Исполнитель: Neil Young
Альбом: Before and After
Жанр: Rock, Folk Rock, Country Rock
Год: 2023
Страна: Canada, USA
Лейбл: Reprise
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR14
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 865 MB
Источник: qobuz
Залито на: XFile (tracks)

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Neil Young continues to exploit his massive catalog of original songs in innovative ways. On his 45th studio album, he revisits 12 songs—mixed as a single track—that stretch as far back as his days with Buffalo Springfield. Young is clear about Before and After's intentions: "Songs from my life recently recorded create a music montage with no beginnings or endings. The feeling is captured, not in pieces but as a whole piece … music defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening." The constant subject throughout is the life affirming powers of having and giving love. With few exceptions the critical segues between tracks are seamless and unobtrusive; opener "I'm the Ocean," a classic Young chord progression that was originally on Mirror Ball, easily blends into "Homefires"—first released on Neil Young Archives Volume II 1972-1976. Young is the entire band on this single track, taken from a 96 kHz/24-bit digital source. (Perhaps as an inside joke, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy is listed in the credits as being an "Electric guitar & Amplifier tech.") He switches from acoustic guitar, harmonica and piano to pump organ occasionally, as he does in the transition between "On the Way Home" to "If You Got Love," an unreleased track from the 1983 Trans sessions. With Young's voice as a constant, there is an undeniable sameness to this continuous design. Except for "Comes a Time," he avoids the hits and concentrates on songs that he's felt were unjustly neglected in the past, or that he's found new meaning in today. That's audibly true in a new version of "When I Hold You in My Arms," his paean to life's inevitable changes. Originally on Are You Passionate?, there's now a renewed certainly as Young brings new fervor to familiar lines: "Old heart's going up/ Old heart's coming down/ My feelings going up/ My feelings coming down/ You gotta hold onto someone in this life."

Трэклист:

01. I'm The Ocean
02. Homefires
03. Burned
04. On the Way Home
05. If You Got Love
06. A Dream That Can Last
07. Birds
08. My Heart
09. When I Hold You In My Arms
10. Mother Earth
11. Mr. Soul
12. Comes a Time
13. Don't Forget Love

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