Neil Young Announces New Album Before and After

Largely acoustic affair set for release on December 8th

October 20, 2023October 21, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments A Dream That Can Last, Before and After, Birds, Burned, Homefires, I’m The Ocean, If You Got Love, Lou Adler, Mother Earth, Mr. Soul, My Heart, Neil Young, Niko Bolas, On The Way Home, The Volume Dealers, When I Hold You In My Arms

Seemingly taking a cue from Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom, Neil Young journeys through his past on his new album Before and After, coming out December 8th.

Picking from an eclectic swath of his originals, Young chooses favorites from his across the entirety of his vast catalog to perform largely alone and acoustic. Each of the songs blend and create one continuous flow, clocking in at a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience (kinda like the new Paul Simon album). Produced by Lou Adler and Neil Young and mixed by Young and Niko Bolas, aka The Volume Dealers, this is unlike any other album he has released to date.

New versions of the songs themselves seamlessly move and morph with mesmerizing clarity, beginning with his earliest Buffalo Springfield appearance, “Burned,” to the recent “Don’t Forget Love” (from 2021’s BARN) and including the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love.”

Neil Young Before and After, Reprise Records 2023

“The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way,” Young explains of Before and After in a public statement. “This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all.”

Before and After will be available in four formats: vinyl LP; clear vinyl LP (Limited Edition available only from Indie outlets and Young’s Greedy Hand online store), Blu-Ray disc featuring Atmos mix, Binaural mix and Hi-Res 96/24 stereo; as well as Compact Disc. As always, Hi-Res digital audio is available at Xstream download store through Neil Young Archives and most DSP’s except Spotify, of course.

Tracklisting:

I’m The Ocean

Homefires

Burned

On The Way Home

If You Got Love

A Dream That Can Last

Birds

My Heart

When I Hold You In My Arms

Mother Earth

Mr. Soul