Neil Young recorded his album “Toast” in 2001. The Canadian singer had never presented it until its release on Friday.
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“Don’t Say You Love Me” (“don’t say you love me“). These are the first lyrics of the album Toast by Canadian rocker Neil Young. The songs were recorded in 2001, but they will not be released until Friday, July 8, 2022. The album had never been presented even if most of the titles had already been circulating under the cloak for several years.
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This new album bears witness to a dark and strange period for the “Loner”. A certain melancholy, tinged with regret, runs through the texts and the voice of Neil Young, whose clear voice does not hide his weariness.
From the recording, in 2001, at the Toast studios in San Francisco, we only know what the main interested parties say: the heat, the discomfort, the isolation of Neil Young in front of the Crazy Horse musicians, who take the songs very far from their starting point.
The result is a very deep, dark and powerful album. A project abandoned during the tour that followed in 2001, but some songs have made many fans salivate over the years. For Neil Young, in the midst of a frenzy of releasing so-called lost projects, it would have been a shame to ignore this Toast.