Le Noise is the 32nd studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on September 28, 2010.

The album consists of Young performing solo, mostly on electric guitar with echo effects, distortion and feedback.

The sessions coincided with the death of two of Young's longtime collaborators, filmmaker L.A. Johnson and steel guitarist Ben Keith, influencing some of the lyrics.

Drummer Dave Grohl would later overdub a drum track to the song, available on Young's website as an outtake.

The lyrics of "Love and War" address the ambiguity and complexity of those topics, and the experiences of each individual create different perspectives that are rarely black and white.

When I did the Living With War album, I was very outspoken about the anger I felt about certain things that were happening at that time in history.

The previous night I had added a couple of new verses and changed some words to make it more relevant to me now, and it was "a good 'un," as Ben used to say.

[8] A number of songs recorded during the sessions didn't make it to the final album; these recordings were premiered in August 2019 as a part of The Complete Le Noise Sessions film on Neil Young Archives website and are available as outtakes.

"Born in Ontario", "Twisted Road" and "For the Love of Man" would be later re-recorded with Crazy Horse for Psychedelic Pill.

It and the solo piano song "Leia" were frequently performed live during the tour in support of the album.

It reminded me of the film era, with its spiral staircases and Mediterranean look; the beautifully designed windows and arches everywhere were pleasing to the eye.

"[10] While attempting to record "Hitchhiker", a song written back in the 1970s and finished during the sessions, Young decided that it felt more appropriate to play on an electric guitar.

While two songs, "Love and War" and "Peaceful Valley Boulevard", remained in acoustic form, Young did the rest of the album on electric guitar, with Howard and Lanois applying dub techniques they had developed while working on Black Dub.

A distinctive guitar sound was achieved by Young playing his Gretsch White Falcon with stereo pickups through two Fender Deluxe amplifiers, and treated with Eventide H3500 subharmonic generator.

Lanois explains the decision to record the songs as solo electric performances: "Neil and I bonded over our love and enthusiasm of amps.

I have a great collection of Fender Tweed Deluxes from the '50s, and I think when I suggested pulling out an electric guitar or two, Neil got excited about hearing what those amps could do.

The first impression of the Neil Young record is perhaps that it is raw, with not much done to it, but on close inspection some beautiful work has been done to details.

Accompanying the album was a black and white film of live-in-studio performances of all the songs, shot by Adam CK Vollick; it was released on YouTube as well as in DVD format.

Videos for "Angry World",[17] "Hitchhiker",[18] "Love And War"[19] and "Walk With Me"[20] were premiered separately before the album release.

The track "Angry World" won a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.