At the age of 64, Neil young is still cranking out the tunes and he shows no sign of letting up any time soon. Young's latest venture entitled Le Noise features 8 tracks. It clocks in at just under 40 minutes and manages to capture both the heavy side and the folk side of the artist. Tracks like album opener "Walk With Me" features fuzzed-out guitar which maintains a folky guitar riff lying in the undertone to keep the track moving. As has been his tendency lately, Young explores the theme of war and the devastating effects it has on the lives of people as heard in the song "Love And War". The softer side of Young is heard on tracks such as "Peaceful Valley Blvd." where it's just Neil's voice and his gentle acoustic guitar. This is a strictly solo album for Young as he appears to be the only performer on the album, aside from maybe a few snippets from producer Daniel Lanois. The tracks do not feature any kind of drums, only the guitar is used to create any kind of rhythm. One interesting thing that Lanois has done as a producer is towards the end of most tracks he has taken Young's music and twisted it, looped it and created warbled vocal effects to finish out the tracks. It makes for some haunting closers to certain songs. This is a really great collection of songs by Neil Young and I do hope he continues putting out music as he still seems to have a lot of things to say and a nearly endless flow of music to let out.
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