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reviews/reports of the September 28 album are starting to pop up. I can't wait for this album. I've been following the stories on it since I first heard of it through Lanois' facebook page
this is shaping up to be a bonafied classic.
Neil Young’s ‘Le Noise’ is a whole lot of Lanois too — Buzzbands.LA
"No truth to the joke that “Lanois” isQuébécois for “crazier horse,” but the Canadian-born, L.A.-based producer — whose credits include U2, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson — has on this new album fashioned a massive, soundscapey netherworld for Young’s new songs. The vocals, steeped in reverb, seem poured out of pitcher; noises are looped and warped to frame the guitarist’s signature riffage; the songs are unblinking as ever, especially the biographical “Hitchhiker.” Amid a roar as powerful as Young has ever mustered, he takes a couplet by couplet look back on his own life, and the results are moving."
First Listen: Impressions of Neil Young's 'Le Noise' (upon hearing it at Daniel Lanois' house) | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times
What’s striking about “Le Noise” is the way it both summarizes and distills Young’s singular approach to music, predominantly just Neil and a guitar: his big, white hollow-body Gretsch electric slashing and burning for most of the tracks, a couple built around picked and strummed acoustic instruments. Both are recorded and amplified -- literally and metaphorically -- by Lanois’ signature soundscapes that loop vocals, and enhance the guitars’ bass notes through distortion boxes, synthesizers and other electronics.
this is shaping up to be a bonafied classic.
Neil Young’s ‘Le Noise’ is a whole lot of Lanois too — Buzzbands.LA
"No truth to the joke that “Lanois” isQuébécois for “crazier horse,” but the Canadian-born, L.A.-based producer — whose credits include U2, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson — has on this new album fashioned a massive, soundscapey netherworld for Young’s new songs. The vocals, steeped in reverb, seem poured out of pitcher; noises are looped and warped to frame the guitarist’s signature riffage; the songs are unblinking as ever, especially the biographical “Hitchhiker.” Amid a roar as powerful as Young has ever mustered, he takes a couplet by couplet look back on his own life, and the results are moving."
First Listen: Impressions of Neil Young's 'Le Noise' (upon hearing it at Daniel Lanois' house) | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times
What’s striking about “Le Noise” is the way it both summarizes and distills Young’s singular approach to music, predominantly just Neil and a guitar: his big, white hollow-body Gretsch electric slashing and burning for most of the tracks, a couple built around picked and strummed acoustic instruments. Both are recorded and amplified -- literally and metaphorically -- by Lanois’ signature soundscapes that loop vocals, and enhance the guitars’ bass notes through distortion boxes, synthesizers and other electronics.
