Neil Young

17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store

This week's biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young's long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009) and Archives Vol. II (1972-1976) (2020), the set also includes a 160-page hardcover booklet "chronologically illustrated with archive materials, detailed descriptions of the music, and a fold-out timeline of the period," and 14 custom digipak sleeves for each "album" and Blu-ray Disc. The deluxe set is limited to 5,000 copies; a less limited edition will feature just the CDs and a 36-page book of liner notes, housed in the same "Gary-pak" as the standard Archives boxes, designed by Young's late designer Gary Burden.