Neil Young To Release Sequel To Unreleased 1977 Album

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Thirty years after shelving Chrome Dreams, Neil Young has taken to his official Web site to announce plans to release a new album entitled Chrome Dreams II. The forthcoming album -- which was previewed for Reprise Records last week and is due October 16th -- contains ten songs, three of which were previously written. Two of the tracks are epics, clocking in at 18:30 and 13:00. Young's current backing band on the record includes Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Rick Rosas and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith. The Blue Note Horns are on one track and a children's choir is on another. Young will launch a North American tour to support the album that kicks off around October 13th. After the original Chrome Dreams was put aside, many of the songs appeared on subsequent Young albums, such as "Like a Hurricane," "Powderfinger," "Sedan Delivery" and "Pocahontas." What does this mean for the twenty-years-in-the-making Archives: Volume 1 box set, due out February 14th, 2008? "This doesn't push the box set back, according to [Neil Young's manager] Elliott Roberts," a spokesperson for Young says. "But don't make me sign a blood oath on that one."

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“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The Joy Formidable | 2011

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

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