Neil Young’s shelved album Toast gets first release

“Unlike any other, Toast was so sad that I couldn’t put it out.”

Neil Young is releasing his previously shelved album Toast for the first time, via Reprise this July.

Young originally recorded the album with Crazy Horse at San Francisco’s Toast Studios, later shelving it because it was “so sad that I couldn’t put it out.”

“The music of Toast is about a relationship,” he writes. “There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the break up, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it’s over. This was that time.”

Young removed his music from Spotify in early 2022, accusing the streaming platform of spreading COVID-19 misinformation by platforming Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Pre-order Toast here in advance of its 8th July release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.