The classic-rock artist releasing roughly 10 albums of old material online was Neil Young. The project grew from his long-running Neil Young Archives, which organizes recordings, films, photographs and other material from across his career.
Young’s archive is unusually expansive because it includes more than familiar studio albums. It also contains live performances, alternate takes, unreleased songs and albums, recordings with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and work made with Crazy Horse. The first major physical collection, The Archives Vol. 1, covered 1963 to 1972 and was issued as a large multi-disc set in 2009.
Young later developed an online archive that let listeners explore his catalog chronologically, including recordings that had remained unavailable for decades. This is why the wording can sound confusing: “10 albums” refers to a substantial body of archival releases rather than ten brand-new contemporary studio albums. His archival project is also separate from his ordinary album-by-album career releases.