Neil Young’s 31st album is a collaboration with atmospheric rock producer Daniel Lanois (whose name gets a clever nod in the title of the LP), and together, the duo find new ways to make Young’s stripped-down solo-guitar excursions both densely layered and personal. Incendiary tracks like “Walk With Me” and “Sign of Love” shroud their romantic lyrics in a fog of echo and distortion, while more folky ballads like “Love and War” have Young expressing confusion and anger over minimal acoustic instrumentation.
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