Neil Young: a new album with Chrome Hearts is on the way. Listen to the title track "Second Song"

Neil Young has announced the release of “Second Song”, a new album made together with Chrome Hearts, due out on September 18. It's the second record the Canadian singer-songwriter has cut with the band, following “Talkin To The Trees“, released in June 2025.
Chrome Hearts' lineup features Anthony LoGerfo on drums, Corey McCormick on bass, Micah Nelson on guitar and Spooner Oldham on keyboards. Compared to the mostly electric sound of “Talkin To The Trees”, the new record is expected to reveal a more intimate side of Young: according to the press release accompanying the announcement, “Second Song” will in fact be a largely acoustic album.

Recorded entirely in analog at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, the album was produced by Lou Adler together with Neil Young himself and Niko Bolas, the latter two once again credited under the name Volume Dealers. “Second Song” will feature seven tracks written by Young: five new compositions and two songs drawn from his past, reworked here in new recordings with Chrome Hearts. “Casting Me Away From You” dates back to 1965 and appeared in 2009 in the monumental box set “The Archives Vol. 1 1963–1972”, in a version recorded together with Comrie Smith.
Even further back are the origins of “I'll Love You Forever”, chosen to close the new album: the song was recorded in 1964 with the Squires, the band Young played in before launching his international career, and that recording too had been unearthed in the “Archives”.

Anticipating the album is the title track “Second Song”, a first taste of a record that seems to be steering Neil Young back toward a more essential, acoustic dimension after the electric imprint of his previous album with Chrome Hearts.

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