* PREORDER * expected to arrive mid-late June

Originally released on vinyl for Record Store Day April 2025, the release in other formats over a month later clarifies how, in more ways than one, Neil Young’s live album with the Chrome Hearts is a mirror image of last year’s studio album with that band. 

Whereas Talkin’ To The Trees was full of the former Buffalo Springfielder’s observations about life as he sees it right now, from an aged perspective, As Time Explodes finds him rendering more broad, yet focused observations on our contemporary times in the context of his own history.

To that end, the album begins with “Daddy Went Walkin’,” a winsome number taken from the 2000 album Silver And Gold. Ostensibly about the passing of Young’s late father Scott – and by the time it’s over, the author’s mother as well – Neil couches such potentially painful thoughts in the familiar sounds of acoustic guitar and harmonica plus the vocal harmonies of his bandmates.