没有太多的人耳朵功能，甚至对摇滚民俗的兴趣不大，他们没有听到这个故事，但让我们再次沉迷于自己。1972年的一天Neil YoungrowedGraham Nashout into the middle of the lake at his California ranch and instructed producer Elliot Mazer to play his freshly completed new album,Harvest, at extreme volume, using his house and barn as stereo speakers. When Mazer asked if the playback of one of the all-time great guitar albums was to its creator’s satisfaction, Young famously hollered back “More barn”.
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of that landmark record, here’s Young referencing that fabled occasion with the title of his 41st album and the follow-up to 2019’s科罗拉多州。Recorded this summer under a full moon at a 19th Century barn (naturally) in the Rockies, it features the revivedCrazy Horse阵容，拉尔夫·莫利纳（Ralph Molina）在鼓上，贝斯手比利·塔尔伯特（Billy Talbot）和创始成员尼尔斯·洛夫格伦（Nils Lofgren）。While its 10 tracks display some of the customary quality control issues we’ve come to expect, there are glimpses of 76-year-old Young and his band in their pomp.
感觉很愉快谷仓在酸痛的棕褐色民谣，愤怒的气候变化国歌和毁灭性的主吉他作品之间，这种情况威胁着从名义上的农院建筑物的墙壁上剥去油漆，而是将其剥落到地面上。
We begin, though, in gentle, contemplative fashion on季节的歌。口琴和手风琴与杨的朴素声strums融为一体时，“透过湖边这个古老的地方的波浪玻璃窗户看”，一个领域“自然没有犯错”。可能是年轻的Harvestuntil a timely reference to “masked people walking everywhere” catapults us into the present day.
The more succinct向西行驶sweeps away the benign atmosphere, although it’s no less reflective lyrically. The throaty growl of老黑色assumes control from the first beat as Young spins memories of his boyhood, “fishing at the mill”.
Change Ain’t Never Gonna有一个友善的根源魅力，Young弹钢琴，并在口琴上爆炸，因为他梦想着“从燃油燃烧的暴民中拯救地球”。肆意的破烂Human Raceis even more directly concerned with impending climate disaster and the impact it’ll have on young people. Three times, Young cuts loose into eviscerating, unscripted solos that threaten to boil over into screeching bedlam before ending in a guttural feedback rumble and Molina’s tumbling drum fill.
并非一切都达到了目标。这位毛茸茸的另类摇滚罐头有一些令人振奋和强大的Bigsby Bends，但它围绕一些令人失望的薄弱的文字游戏，而Young的工作耦合为“您改变了我的生活，使我的生活变得更好，像我最喜欢的毛衣一样穿着我的爱”，Shape Of You，这是扬对妻子达里尔·汉娜（Daryl Hannah）崇拜的一个可爱的陈述，这并不是年龄段的人。
A couple of bruised slow-burning pieces elevate谷仓above科罗拉多州， 尽管。他们可能会迷路unfolds steadily in 6/8, a foreboding mood gathering around Young as he strums his acoustic and waits for “the boys to come get the goods”. It’s a timeless piece of storytelling.
The second highlight is the brooding eight-minute penultimate track欢迎回来。Young relishes drawing out the line “I’ve been singing this way for so long, riding the storm, might remind me of who we are and why we walk so lowly”. As the story develops at a somnambulant pace, he and Lofgren exchange improvised licks that twist this way and that. They flirt continually with feedback, the occasional outside note allowed to remain, with Molina’s restrained ornamentation a tranquil guiding presence.
The sense of fun and kinship is audible, and you can imagine these weathered old friends circled together in the barn, feeling their way and exchanging knowing glances, as they’ve been doing since 1969’s每个人都知道这无处。The accompanying documentary on the making of the album, directed by Hannah, should be a delight.
谷仓is an archetypal Crazy Horse release, and there’s nothing even remotely surprising here, yet in the autumn of Neil Young’s eighth decade, there are moments on this album that find him sounding as vital as when he first yelled that demand for “more barn”.
2022年将带来新的疯狂专辑名称为吐司, plus theEarly Dazecollection and a 50th anniversary expanded edition of Harvest, alongside the latest entry in Young’s档案系列赛，他惊人的工作继续扩展的速度没有放缓的迹象。
尼尔·扬和疯马谷仓is现在出来。