The Visitor (Neil Young and Promise of the Real album)

The Visitor is the 40th studio album by Canadian / American singer-songwriter Neil Young and his second studio album with American rock group Promise of the Real. The album was released on December 1, 2017, on Reprise Records. The album was preceded by the singles "Children of Destiny", which was released on July 4, 2017, and "Already Great", which was released on November 3, 2017, and is in response to President Donald Trump's campaign slogan of Make America Great Again.

Critical reception

The Visitor has a score of 68/100 on Metacritic.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Neil Young.

Personnel

• Neil Young – guitar, piano, harmonica, pump organ, whistle, water bottle, bathroom whistle, vocals
• Micah Nelson – piano, guitar, pump organ, mandolin, glockenspiel, whistle, toy piano, accordion, vocals
• Lukas Nelson – guitar, whistle, water bottle, vocals
• Corey McCormick – bass, whistle, water bottle, vocals
• Anthony LoGerfo – drums, whistle, vocals
• Tato Melgar – percussion, whistle, water bottle, vocals
• Additional orchestration – vocals, violas, cellos, basses, flutes, oboe, clarinets, bassoons, French horns, trumpets, trombones, cimbassos, harp

Additional roles

• Gary Burden, Jenice Heo – art direction & design
• Daryl Hannah – photography
• Dana Fineman – photography
• John Hanlon – production, mixing
• Niko Bolas – production
• Al Schmitt – mixing, recording
• Dana Nielsen – recording, engineering
• Steve Genewick, Changler Harrod – engineering
• Johnnie Burik, Rob Bisel – assistant engineering
• Chris Bellman – mastering
• Elliot Roberts – direction

Charts

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