New album’s title track is “a love letter to the older generation,” Young says.

takes a picturesque odyssey through the vast American landscape in his new animated video for “Peace Trail,” the title track of . “Peace Trail” follows .

The “Peace Trail” clip features a series of distinctively images: A tornado plowing through the plain, a row of stores along a small-town main street, moonlight over cacti in the desert and a birds’ eye view of the vascular system of highways.

 The video’s directors, Darcy Prendergast and Mike Greaney, told NPR that they used a paint-on-glass technique to create the images that capture “the rich, organic Neil Young sound. “This approach, combined with the painterly compositions of sweeping American landscapes, is narratively served up as a love letter to the older generation,” the duo said.

Young  about recording Peace Trail, and struggling and embracing modern recording technology like AutoTune. “I look at like what if I just dropped in here from outer space. What would I think? Remember hula hoops? Everybody had a hula hoop. I don’t know if you remember that. It kinda reminds me of that with phones. Can you imagine that that’s gonna last really a long time? I don’t see it. I think something is gonna replace that.”

source: rollingstone.com