As Time Explodes is a live album by Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, released on May 29, 2026 via The Other Shoe Productions under exclusive license to Reprise Records — first issued as a limited clear double-LP for Record Store Day on April 18, 2026, with the standard CD and black vinyl edition following on May 29. The thirteen-track, seventy-one-minute record documents Young's 31-date "Love Earth" tour of Europe and North America in the summer of 2025 — undertaken shortly after the June 2025 studio debut of the Chrome Hearts configuration, Talkin' to the Trees — with selections drawn from multiple concerts including legendary festival appearances at Glastonbury, Hyde Park, and the Montreux Jazz Festival. The Chrome Hearts lineup featured Young on guitar, pump organ, and piano alongside Spooner Oldham on organ and piano, Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass, and Anthony LoGerfo on drums. The album was produced by Lou Adler with Young and longtime collaborator Niko Bolas under the "Volume Dealers" banner, with LoGerfo serving as associate producer.In characteristically contrarian fashion, As Time Explodes barely touches the studio album it nominally supports. Instead, as Apple Music observed, the set creates "an alternate universe" in which deep cuts and rarities — the Silver and Gold country charmer "Daddy Went Walkin'," the 1999 CSNY lullaby "Looking Forward," and the piano ballad "Long Walk Home" from Crazy Horse's largely overlooked 1987 LP Life — sit alongside canonical standards like "Harvest Moon," "Ohio," "Cortez the Killer" (extended to fourteen minutes), and "Like a Hurricane." The album's one genuinely new composition is "Big Crime," a scathing two-minute anti-Trump broadside that Apple Music described as "a contemporary complement to the eternally indignant Nixon-era address 'Ohio,'" recorded from a Bergen, Norway performance. The record debuted at number six on the UK Official Americana chart upon its CD release, representing another top-ten chart entry for Young and cementing As Time Explodes as one of the more eclectic and purposeful entries in his extensive live catalogue.
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