Neil Young's Restless Twilight

A Western movie, a sci-fi novel and an ambitious site that will house his life’s work are just a few of his latest projects

- Patrick Doyle

‘It’s pretty unbelievable, really,” says Neil Young. He’s talking about the process of going through his entire archives for the Neil Young Archives, an interactive multimedia timeline. How does it feel to reflect on a half-century of work, from Buffalo Springfield to Rust Never Sleeps to Harvest Moon? “I try not to focus on it too much,” Young says, from his Austin hotel room. “It starts in 1963, and it’s 2018. I try to be mellow on that.” But Young is in no way done creating – as his recent workload proves.

Journey Through the Past

Young has obsessed over every detail of his archival site, from the high-resolution audio to a blog he constantly updates. Only 25 percent of the music is loaded so far, and Young rattles off the unreleased albums he’s excited to roll out, including unheard Crazy Horse LPs from 1969 and 2012, and Dume, an alternate version of 1975’s