Neil Young & Promise Of The Real - The Visitor

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:14
Size: 117.3 MB
Styles: Rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[ 5:47] 1. Already Great
[ 2:36] 2. Fly By Night Deal
[ 4:50] 3. Almost Always
[ 5:13] 4. Stand Tall
[ 5:54] 5. Change Of Heart
[ 8:21] 6. Carnival
[ 2:33] 7. Diggin' A Hole
[ 3:24] 8. Children Of Destiny
[ 1:59] 9. When Bad Got Good
[10:32] 10. Forever

Neil Young's latest LP with heartland-rock band Promise of the Real opens with "Already Great," where the guitars cut like rusty plows and anti-Trump invective becomes bitter tribute: "You're the promise land/The helping hand/No wall. No hate. No fascist U.S.A." That sense of cranky rage and ageless idealism are all over The Visitor. On the somber folk shuffle "Almost Always," he complains about "livin' with a game show host," while the forcefully hard-grooving "Fly By Night Deal" is sung (partly) in the voice of a pipeline foreman bringing wreckage to the wilderness. Young detours into blues on "Diggin' a Whole" and absurdist eccentricity on the eight-minute "Carnival," spinning a surreal circus allegory over a south-of-the-border saunter. Even weirder is "Children of Destiny," a ragefully didactic sing-along recorded with a 56-piece orchestra that sounds like a grunge anthem lost in the soundtrack to a Disney musical. But the album ends on well-worn ground with the folk prayer "Forever," the kind of song he's been writing for decades, stretching into 10 minutes of frayed hope for his fellow man. "Earth is like a church without a preacher/The people have to pray for themselves," he sings, true to a messy vision of democracy that remains as endearing as ever.

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