Neil Young Announces New Album with The Chrome Hearts, Second Song, Shares 11.5-Minute Title Track: Stream

Neil Young has announced Second Song, his second collection with his latest backing band, The Chrome Hearts. Spanning seven tracks, the collection arrives September 18th via Reprise Records. Pre-orders and pre-saves are ongoing. Earlier this year, the folk icon teased the new cycle, saying living through the “worst president in the history of our country” had left him “hurt.” While he finds politics “sad and depressing,” however, he chose to reconnect with “the feelings of life and love.” The result is a largely acoustic collection of songs that meditate on the state of things now in the context of how things once were and could be in the future. Hence the reflective, nearly 12-minute long lead single and title track. “Second Song” is an unhurried thought process, as if Young and the Chrome Hearts (drummer Anthony LoGerfo, bassist Corey McCormick, guitarist, Micah Nelson, and legendary keyboardist Spooner Oldham) were lost in a fire-side jam session. Young sings of the life he’s experienced and the glow of the future, with lines such as, “I dream a way of living/ A way of sharing what we find/ A way of walking slowly through the smokey leaves of time.” Watch the “Second Song” lyric...