Neil Young – Love and War (Warner)
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By: Thomas Hannan
On ‘Love and War’, a simplistic, haunting song performed solo on an acoustic guitar adapted specifically for him by producer Daniel Lanois, we find Neil Young at perhaps the most emotionally affecting he’s been in decades, hitting a few nails to do with both himself as a person and human nature as a whole squarely on their heads.
“I sang for justice, and I hit a bad chord, but I still try to sing about love and war”, he emotes (perhaps noting the controversy that surrounded his last overtly political outing, the excellent Living With War) in a song that deftly reduces all petitionary prayer to the two subjects in its title, and once heard, is nigh on impossible to shake from one’s consciousness.
Its parent album Le Noise is full of him making a racket and messing around with tape loops, by the way. Get it.
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Artists in this article: Neil Young
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