Young’s new album, “Chrome Dreams II,” proves that things aren’t that simple. Comes a time, when you settle down.” Perhaps Neil has simply drifted somewhere into the latter stage, as so many once important musical acts inevitably do, content to ride his previous fame while making typical, self-satisfying, and ultimately unexciting music. Rewind 30 or so years, and one might recall Neil Young’s “Comes a Time,” the title track of his 1978 album, where he sings “Comes a time, when you’re drifting. I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about “Chrome Dreams II,” a new album by Neil Young intended as a semi-sequel to a widely bootlegged yet unreleased 1977 album titled (naturally) “Chrome Dreams.” Young’s latest album is his third since the near fatal brain aneurism he suffered in 2005.His last two albums, “Prairie Wind,” a collection of optimistic and at times inspiring folksy country tunes, and “Living With War,” an abrasive attack on the President and the war, seemed to collectively lack a great deal of original artistic effort on the part of Young.
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