HEAR YE: WILCO The Album
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[Wordle by AMY JANE]
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PREVIOUSLY: Wilco In WIlmington On Sale Today 
PREVIOUSLY: Q&A w/ Wilco’s Glenn Kotche
PREVIOUSLY: On Sugar Mountain
PREVIOUSLY: Q&A W/ Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen
PREVIOUSLY: A Star-Studded Interview With I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Director Sam Jones
PREVIOUSLY: Saturday night Wilco seemed a little, well, predictable. The raw white lights and stripped-bare stage was a marked contrast to the moody mirror-ball atmospherics and kooky-but-compelling art films projected on large rear screens of recent tours. Message: We are here to play music, not put on human be-ins. Still, even in this plainly naked setting, songs like “You Are My Face” and “Shot In The Arm” were as arresting and cinematic as those stop-motion film clips of flowers blooming and then dying they used to show you in science class. This was due in no small part to the avant-pyrotechnics and jazz-like precision of guitarist Nels Cline. For much of the night Cline’s guitar work was as charismatic and scenery-chewing as Tweedy’s emotive lead vocal, which, let the record show, was in fine achy-breaky form. And the whole ensemble was a seamless mesh of nuance, warmth and rich tone colors. MORE
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May 14th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Track 6 (You never Know) Sounds like My Sweet Lord part 2, it even cribbed the sweet slide guitar part. “My Sweet Lord” of course, sounds like “He’s So Fine”, so its a double rip and coupled with the chorus of “i don’t care any more”, he makes it a sly tip o’ cap, nudge nudge, wink wink to all. Brilliant and lazy at the same time!
May 15th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Album sounds really good , but as much as I think Nels Cline is brilliant.. I have to say the older Wilco stuff (Jay Bennett etc…) is superior to me. Wilco was defined in part by the dirty (if not raw) guitar parts and rythmic noise playing a brilliant foil to tweedy’s beautiful melodies and silky smooth (yet raspy) voice. In the studio Nels Cline sounds almost sterile at times..a little to perfect… and lacking the flaws that tweedy’s lyrics always highlighted in the human condition. As with all Wilco albums I am sure that this one will be a non stop listen for me, but I do not anticipate it ever exclipsing the passion I have for “being there” or “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.” I do believe this is a stronger and more complete effort than Sky blue Sky however.