On The Beach CD

Neil Young‘s celebrated, but often elusive, 1974 album On The Beach will be reissued as an individual vinyl LP in September, along with a few other classics, including Tonight’s the Night, and Zuma.

Young’s fifth studio album was recorded after 1975’s Tonight’s The Night, but issued before it. It failed to to match the commercial success of its studio predecessor Harvest but four decades on is highly regarded, exhibiting a bleak beauty; sparse, loose and mellow. Side two in particular, with its run of On The Beach, Motion Pictures and the nine-minute Ambulance Blues, is superb and moving.