Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Crawlspace Dept. - Neil Young Talks About Unissued "Break" Track!


The sixtieth
anniversary edition of After The Gold Rush will include the previously unreleased track Break, a major archive discovery. Neil graciously agreed to be interviewed by valve radio for an Isle O' Foam© exclusive!

FT3 Hey Neil! You're looking great!

NY Uh, this is radio, man.

FT3 I stuck this picture of Buffalo Springfield over the speaker. When you didn't look like some homeless bum!

NY Can we talk about the track? I'm really proud of Break. Not even the bootleggers knew about this one. Took everyone by surprise! [laughs - Ed.]

FT3 I just listened to it. Kinda puzzled?

NY Right! It's just me and my guitar, man. Purity. I wanted space, you know?

FT3 You and your guitar? I'm not hearing that. Or anything.

NY Me and my guitar, sitting there in the studio, everything turned off. I wanted to turn everything off, see how the world would sound with everything turned off. Noise is pollution, man. Electricity is pollution. It was gonna be one side of the album. It's edited down from, I think, twenty minutes? Nearly twenty minutes. That's what I wanted. Uh ... and then it got kinda lost. But I found it again! The whole track. Gonna release it on the next Archives set. There'll be this, the single edit, and the original album version. Maybe a Pono™ remix.

FT3  It's better than anything on Greendale.

NY We're gonna tour it. The Break Tour. Me and Pancho and Lefty and Dozy and Grumpy. To empty halls, we're not allowing audiences in because it'll compromise the artistic integrity. But you can still buy tickets, participate in the event that way.

FT3 Well, that's one silver lining right there. Hey, I have to go, Neil - microwave just pinged.

NY Talking of silver lining, my hat is lined with aluminum foil. [tape break here - Ed.]

As a Foam Exclusive, the track Break is available to download in the comments.




32 comments:

  1. Take a break with Neil!

    https://workupload.com/file/vpE2Mw86VsV

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  2. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich! Wow, it's almost Xanadu!!!!! Thanks Farq!

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  3. say what you will--and y'all will--and I'm no fan of his voice, but damn if "Time Fades Away" does not have a most satisfying cronch.

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    1. That album just reeks of despair. Yet, its the one by him that I still occassionally play.

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    2. You sure that reek ain't emanatin' from your shorts, pmac?

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    3. As per usual, "all of the above" can and occasionally does apply.

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  4. Shorter than the four minutes, thirty-three seconds, I was expecting.

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    1. I love the fact that its recorded in mono - old school.

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    2. But none of youse bums noticed it's @320, which proves you can't tell the diff.

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    3. Its hard to discern in glorious monoaural.

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    4. The warmth of the analogue really glows, don't it?

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    5. If you play it backwards you can hear the gentle sound of Giuliani ripping one from the lawyer's table.

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  5. We always knew Neil at heart was a minimalist; frinstance that one-chord guitar break on "Cinnamon Girl."

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  7. I can only think of one word:

    eloquent
    as always

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  8. This just in: double album "Break" to be released on Deutsche Grammophon early in the new year! "This will be my Metal Machine Music" avers Young.

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    1. Lou Reed concurs

      Spike Jones unusually silent.....

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    2. Rolling Stone magazine rolling out a seven star review in a preemptive strike...

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  9. No-one really does this like Neil does!

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  10. I thought that was Bond...............James Bond

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  11. The Greendale comparison/observation is right on.

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  12. I looking forward to teh AI Atmos remix anniversary edition in ten years time..sweet

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  13. Years ago, on the wonderful Willards Wormholes site, he put up a faux-Neil Young album where Neil had recorded the entire album using a tin can and a piece of string as the microphone.

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  14. Yeah, Neil then did 'A Letter Home' recorded on a digital wax cylinder, he was furious there was no analogue master so played the recording in a room recorded that and did a Doubly Tossmop straight to vinyl quadruple slow speed cut.
    It's rumoured he actually creates vinyl masters at such slow speed they are cut backwards. His dedication to quality....gotta hand it to him...

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