Neil Young will release his ‘lost’ album ‘Ocean Countryside’ later this year.

The maverick artist remains an inscrutable force – as the Glastonbury team found to their chagrin recently. It’s all smoothed out now, however, and Neil Young will absolutely, definitely headline Worthy Farm next year.

His Archives project continues as a remarkable pace, with a string of releases allowing Neil Young to open the vaults, and sketch in some much-mythologised aspects of his work.

Out on February 14th, ‘Oceanside Countryside’ was recorded between May to December 1977, before being shelves. 1978 album ‘Comes A Time’ did make it out, and the two records share similar country-folk inflections – indeed, three songs (‘Goin’ Back’, ‘Human Highway’ and ‘Field of Opportunity’) appear on both albums.

Being granted a full official release, ‘Oceanside Countryside’ features 10 songs. The vinyl release of ‘Oceanside Countryside’ includes some tracks that are on the CD of the same name in Neil Young’s ‘Archives Vol. III’. It’s worth noting, though, that this track list is how ‘Oceanside Countryside’ was originally planned to be released and finally will be made available on vinyl for the first time ever.  Recorded on tape, these are the original mixes done at the time of recording.

Neil Young comments…

“This analogue original album, recorded in 1977, was unreleased at the time. These songs are the original mixes done at the time of the recordings. I sang the vocals and played the instruments on ‘Oceanside’, in Florida at Triad studios and Malibu, at Indigo studio. I sang the vocals and recorded with my great band of friends at Crazy Mama’s in Nashville on ‘Countryside’. I hope you enjoy this treasure of an Analog Original recording as much as I do.” 

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Side One: Oceanside

1. ‘Sail Away’
2. ‘Lost In Space’  
3. ‘Captain Kennedy’
4. ‘Goin’ Back’
5. ‘Human Highway’

Side Two: Countryside

1. ‘Field Of Opportunity’  
2. ‘Dance Dance Dance’  
3. ‘The Old Homestead’
4. ‘It Might Have Been’
5. ‘Pocahontas’

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