Angry World
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| "Angry World" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Neil Young | |
| from the album Le Noise | |
| Released | September 14, 2010 |
| Recorded | July 9, 2010 |
| Studio | "Le Noise": Home of Daniel Lanois |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 4:11 |
| Label | Reprise |
| Songwriter(s) | Neil Young |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Lanois |
"Angry World" is a song by Neil Young from his 2010 album Le Noise. It is a solo performance by Young on guitar and vocals with no additional musicians. Young wrote the tune and Daniel Lanois produced it. It won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song and was nominated for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.
"Angry World" was the first track to be released from Le Noise.[1] The song, like the rest of the album, was recorded in the Los Angeles home of producer Daniel Lanois.[2] Unaccompanied by other musicians, Young's vocals, described as "howl[ing] venom",[3] are mixed high above his guitar.[2] There is a "buzz and crackle"[1] to his "fuzzed-out"[4] electric guitar and a loop of the word 'angry'[5] as background noise throughout the song.[6] Young delivered the incomplete track to Lanois, who built the arrangement out of what was given to him.[2]
Video
The video for "Angry World" was released on September 14, 2010, on stereogum.com,[7] two weeks prior to the September 28 release of the album, Le Noise.[8] It was shot in black-and-white[9] in the home of producer Daniel Lanois by Adam CK Vollick.[10] It contains a montage of images including Young performing and shots of belly dancers.[1]
