Talkin' To The Trees

Neil Young has announced that "Talkin' To The Trees', his highly anticipated 1st album with The Chrome Hearts, will arrive on June 13th, 2025, via The Other Shoe, Reprise Records and Warner Music. After releasing their debut single, “Big Change”, back in January, Young and his new backing quartet amplified expectations for a looming full length when they staged the new American made commentary anthem, “Let’s Roll Again”, at the Light Up the Blues benefit concert in Los Angeles. Now they’ve shared the studio treatment for that new cut, alongside a music video and the album’s full tracklist.

“Let’s Roll Again” is an interpolation of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” to fit a very different, but fittingly direct social message. Over a gravelly, churning smokebelch of an arrangement, Young calls out big names in the American auto industry with sing songy verses that demand they “build somethin’ useful people need, build us a safe way for us to be, build us somethin’ won’t kill our kids, runs real clean, yeah, runs real clean”. Thundering guitars also lead Young into a jab at Elon Musk, when he rallies, “if you’re a fascist, then get a Tesla, if it’s electric, it doesn’t matter, if you’re a democrat, then taste your freedom, get whatever you want, and taste your freedom”. An admittedly confusing, but certainly barbed and forceful statement.

Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, featuring guitarist Micah Nelson (a.k.a. Particle Kid), bassist Corey McCormick, drummer Anthony Logerfo and organist Spooner Oldham, cut "Talkin' To The Trees" at Malibu’s Shangri La Studios with co-production from the bandleader and Lou Adler. On June 18th, 2025, the ensemble will hit the road for a 23 stop summer tour across the US, UK, Europe and Canada. Young confirmed his Love Earth Tour in February after forecasting that the content of the performances 'will reflect the feelings of the times'.