Neil Young + Promise Of the Real The Visitor 2LP

5 jan 2018

Neil Young + Promise Of The Real will release their new studio album The Visitor
[Reprise Records] on Friday, December 1, 2017. The vinyl edition will follow on on
January 5, 2018. When Neil Young entered Shangri La Studio with the band Promise Of The Real a few months ago, there were a lot of images and feelings careening around his soul. The country was heading in a direction Young had never seen, even though up until then
he thought he'd seen it all. But something different was happening, and it had gotten
inside his music. "I'm a Canadian by the way and I love the USA," he sings on the
first song "Already Great." The ethos of The Visitor can be summed up in the
refrain of “Already Great” where Young ansists, “Already great, you’re already
great. You’re the promise land, the helping hand. No wall. No hate. No fascist USA.
WHOSE STREET? OUR STREET.” From those words, Neil Young was ready to take
a musical journey on his new album The Visitor like he had never taken before. It
was one where he'd even surprise himself, always the mark of a creative leap. By the
end of the recording sessions, he knew he'd made his most diverse album going all the way back to Harvest in 1972, when America was also in the throes of becoming unhinged. Neil Young didn't blink then, and he is not blinking now

Features:
• Double LP

Selections:
Side A:
1. Already Great
2. Fly By Night Deal
3. Almost Always
4. Stand Tall
Side B:
5. Change of Heart
6. Carnival
7. Diggin' A Hole
Side C:
1. Children of Destiny
2. When Bad Got Good
3. Forever