It’s not your imagination: Neil Young has been unusually prolific these past few years, releasing some four new albums plus a collection of “lost” 1976 recordings between the summer of 2015 and the end of last year. Three of those new releases—The Monsanto Years, the live Earth and now The Visitor—find Young in the company of the 29-year-old Lukas Nelson (Willie’s son) and his band Promise of the Real. POTR is the best fit Young has had since aligning with Crazy Horse in the late ‘60s and The Visitor is their most exciting and far-reaching collaboration to date even if, as is Young’s M.O these days, it appears to have been slapped together on the fly. That, in fact, is its greatest strength: Unlike the forgettable The Monsanto Years, Young and POTR delight in mixing things up and seeing what might stick. So while the 72-yearold Canadian is all fired up about the leader of his adopted country on the album’s scathing, lumbering opening track, “Already Great” (“No wall, no ban, no fascist USA”), by the shuffling, acoustic “Change of Heart” the mood is lighter and the “walls that you hide behind” are of a more personal nature. The album-closer “Forever,” too, is tender enough to have come off of the 1972 Harvest. Like Crazy Horse though, POTR does heavy best, and when the ensemble (which also includes Lukas’ brother Micah) is fully cranking (“Children of Destiny,” the anthemic “Stand Tall”), they show that Neil Young has no intention of ever letting up.