There can’t be too many people with functioning ears and even a passing interest in rock folklore who haven’t heard the story, but let’s indulge ourselves again. One day in 1972,尼尔·杨划船格雷厄姆·纳什（Graham Nash）在他的加利福尼亚牧场的湖中间，指示制片人艾略特·马泽（Elliot Mazer）播放他的新专辑收成，以极高的数量，将他的房子和谷仓作为立体声扬声器。当Mazer询问历史上一张出色的吉他专辑之一的播放是否令创作者满意时，Young著名地回到了“ More Barn”。
在该具有里程碑意义的唱片50周年纪念日前夕，这是Young引用的寓言，他的第41张专辑的标题和2019年的随访Colorado。今年夏天在落基山脉的19世纪谷仓（自然地）的满月下录制了它，它具有复活疯马line-up, with Ralph Molina on drums, bassist Billy Talbot and founding memberNils Lofgren。尽管它的10条曲目显示了我们期望的一些习惯质量控制问题，但有76岁的Young和他的乐队中有一瞥。
The feel is enjoyably loose asBarnsegues between aching sepia-tinged balladry, raging climate change anthems and devastating lead guitar work that threatens not so much to strip the paint from the walls of the titular farmyard building as raze it to the ground.
但是，我们以温和，沉思的方式开始Song Of The Seasons。A harmonica and accordion mingle with Young’s placid acoustic strums as he sets the scene, “looking through a wavy glass window in this old place by the lake”, a realm where “nature makes no mistake”. It could be Young circa收成until a timely reference to “masked people walking everywhere” catapults us into the present day.
更简洁Heading West扫荡良性的气氛，尽管它在抒情上也同样反光。喉咙咆哮Old Black从第一节拍摄中，当Young对他的童年时代“在磨坊里钓鱼”的记忆旋转时，就可以控制。
改变永远不会has an affable rootsy charm, Young playing piano and blasting away on his harmonica as he dreams of “saving the planet from the fuel-burning mob”. The wantonly ragged人类更直接地关注即将来临的气候灾难及其对年轻人的影响。杨三次陷入了无脚本的独奏，威胁要沸腾成尖叫的床上，然后以胆量的反馈隆隆声和莫利纳的翻滚鼓填充。
Not everything hits the mark. The bristling alt-rock Canerican has some exhilarant riffing and mighty Bigsby bends, but it’s centred around some disappointingly weak wordplay, while Young’s laboured coupling of “you changed my life for the better, wore my love like your favourite sweater” on你的形状, an otherwise adorably cute statement of Young’s adoration of wife Daryl Hannah, isn’t one for the ages.
几个瘀伤的慢燃料升高Barn多于Colorado, though.They Might Be Lost在6/8中稳步展开，这是一种预一口气的心情在年轻人周围聚集在一起，因为他挥舞着声学，等待“男孩们来获取货物”。这是一个永恒的讲故事。
第二个亮点是繁殖八分钟的倒数第二轨Welcome Back。Young Helishes提出了台词：“我一直以这种方式唱歌了这么长时间，骑着风暴，可能会让我想起我们是谁以及为什么我们如此卑鄙地走路”。随着故事的发展，他和Lofgren交换即兴地舔了以这种方式扭曲的舔。他们不断调情反馈，偶尔会留下偶尔的纸条，而莫利纳（Molina）的装饰构成了宁静的指导状态。
有趣的感觉和亲属关系是可以听到的，您可以想象这些风化的老朋友在谷仓里盘旋在一起，感觉自己的方式并交换了一眼，就像他们自1969年以来所做的那样Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere。由汉娜（Hannah）执导的有关专辑制作的随附纪录片应该很高兴。
Barn is an archetypal Crazy Horse release, and there’s nothing even remotely surprising here, yet in the autumn of Neil Young’s eighth decade, there are moments on this album that find him sounding as vital as when he first yelled that demand for “more barn”.
With 2022 set to bring a new Crazy Horse album titledToast，加上早期发呆收藏和50周年的扩展版Harvest，以及Young的最新作品Archivesseries, the rate at which his astonishing body of work continues to expand shows no signs of slowing.
尼尔·杨& Crazy Horse’sBarn是out now。