neil young and the chrome hearts Announce Debut Album Talkin to the Trees
The LP arrives June 13 via Reprise. Listen to "Lets Roll Again" below.
After releasing “big change” right before Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Neil Young and his new band, the Chrome Hearts, have announced their debut album. Talkin to the Trees will arrive June 13 via Reprise Records. The LP marks the first official collaboration between Young, Spooner Oldham, Micah Nelson, Anthony LoGerfo, and Corey McCormick and was co-produced by Lou Adler. It will be Neil Young’s third release of 2025, after Coastal: The Soundtrack and Oceanside Countryside.
Lead track “big change” is loud, sludgy, thrashing and lyrically minimal. During the song, the chrome hearts insist that it’s time for the American people to reap what they’ve sown. “Might be a politician tryin’ to say something new,” Young declares. “Might be your decision, now you got to see it through. Might be bad and it might be good, big change is comin’ to you.” I like the way John Hanlon described it, as “in your face loud irreverent rock and roll paint splatter on the canvas in the vein of a Jackson Pollock painting.”
New single “Lets Roll Again” builds on the momentum of “big change,” as Young performs a “This Land is Your Land”-style political jam, asking Democrats and American car manufacturers to rise up in the wake of Tesla and fascism. “Build us a safe way for us to be,” Young cries out. “Build us somethin’ won’t kill our kids.” From the looks of it, we’re about to get a big political record from Shakey.
