Neil Young delivers new Daniel Lanois-produced album

A new Neil Young album titled "Le Noise" is set for release on Sept. 28, Reprise Records announced Wednesday (9/1).

Famed producer Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel) collaborated with Young on the forthcoming set, marking the first time the two have recorded together.

"Le Noise" was recorded in Lanois' home in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to a press release, the album "features Young on acoustic and electric guitars with Lanois adding his trademark sonic textures, creating one of the most sonically arresting albums Young has ever recorded."

No band or overdubs were utilized, just "a man on a stool and me doing a nice job on the recording," Lanois said in a statement.

"Neil was so appreciative of the sonics that we presented to him," Lanois said. "He walked in the door and I put an acoustic guitar into his hands -- one that I had been working on to build a new sound. That's the multi-layered acoustic sound that you hear on the songs 'Love and War' and 'Peaceful Valley Boulevard.' I wanted him to understand that I've spent years dedicated to the sonics in my home and that I wanted to give him something he'd never heard before. He picked up that instrument, which had everything -- an acoustic sound, electronica, bass sounds -- and he knew as soon as he played it that we had taken the acoustic guitar to a new level. It's hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock and roll, but I think we did it."

"Le Noise" will be released as a standard CD, on vinyl, as a digital download and as a deluxe CD/DVD. The DVD, shot by cinematographer Adam Vollick, features eight black-and-white films of Young performing each song solo on acoustic and electric guitar in the studio. A Blu-Ray edition is due in November.

The track-listing for Le Noise is:

Walk With Me
Sign of Love
Rescue Me
Love And War
Angry World
Hitchhiker
Peaceful Valley Blvd.
Rumblin'