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\n\tThe ever-prolific Neil Young has assured fans that 2025 will feature a new album, with the Canadian veteran offering an update on his debut album with new band The Chrome Hearts.<\/p>\n
\n\tNews of the upcoming record comes just weeks after Young shared \u201cBig Change\u201d, the first single to be released with his nascent band. The Chrome Hearts first debuted by Young back in September 2024, just months after an unspecified illness necessitated<\/a> a \u201cbig unplanned break\u201d from touring with longtime backing group Crazy Horse.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Chrome Hearts, as Young himself describes<\/a>, \u201creconfigures musicians he has worked with before\u201d, with guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick, drummer Anthony Logerfo, and organist Spooner Oldham comprising the lineup. While Nelson, McCormick, and Logerfo have performed with Young as members of Promise of the Real, Oldham has worked with Young for decades, appearing on records such as 1978\u2019s Comes a Time<\/em> and 1992\u2019s Harvest Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tWorking with producers John Hanlon and his brother-in-law Lou Adler at Rick Rubin\u2019s Shangri-La studio in Malibu, Young explains that \u201cBig Change\u201d is the first taste of a forthcoming album from The Chrome Hearts, with the material being written throughout November and December.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThey feel fresh to me and I am very happy to have this all ready for you. It won\u2019t be long now and it will be great to have new songs to play on the road this summer in Europe, the USA and Canada,\u201d Young said via his website<\/a>. \u201cWe are looking forward to that!\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tYoung added that the record is now in the mastering stage for vinyl, CD, and digital copies that are expected to be released in only a couple of months.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI am very happy and relieved to have ths [sic] done in the short time it took,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe album art has been completed and handed in with Jenice Heo. I am working on the lyric sheets now, hoping to hand-write the words and get them in, in time..<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt is a happy feeling I have today, knowing I have made an album I think people will enjoy. I hope it\u2019s out in April. That would be pretty fast.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPresuming the April release date is adhered to, it would make the as-yet-untitled record the second release from Young in 2025, with his \u201clost\u201d 1977 album Oceanside Countryside<\/em><\/a> set to drop on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n \n\tYoung and The Chrome Hearts will also be performing at England\u2019s Glastonbury Festival<\/a> in June. Young\u2019s inclusion on the lineup was marred<\/a> by an \u201cerror in the information\u201d which initially<\/a> saw him distance himself from the event, labelling it a \u201ccorporate turn-off\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n