Rather than pump out new albums, Neil Young’s spent much of his time lately churning out hidden gems from his back catalog. The latest news from Young’s camp is that he’s dusted off an album called Toast (which has nothing to do with grilled bread – it’s the name of the studio they recorded it at) that he and his band Crazy Horse recorded  back in 2000.

I read earlier in the year that Young was planning to release an album of unreleased material, but I think that was related to his Chrome Dreams II project. Toast is completely different – seemingly a collection of songs that the band struggled to put together. Well, the site says they worked “for months and came up with very little”.

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