Featuring noisy versions of traditional folk songs (Oh Susannah, Clementine), the first album for nine years by Neil Young & Crazy Horse, on the one hand, is a bold reconfiguring of America’s musical heritage. On the other hand, there can’t be that many people who have yearned to hear Young sing a portentous version of Comin’ Round the Mountain. Still, it works much better than expected: the choice of songs (Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, doo-wop act the Silhouettes’ Get a Job) add an implicitly political edge, and they ditch the whole conceit for a ragged and timely version of God Save the Queen.
(Reprise; out Mon)