Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
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Artist: WilcoBrand: WILCO
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-06-30
Music Label: Nonesuch
Product features:
- WILCO THE ALBUM
- Wilco (the song)
- Deeper Down
- One Wing
- Bull Black Nova
- You And I
- You Never Know (single)
- Country Disappeared
- Solitaire
- I'll Fight
- Sonny Feeling
- Everlasting Everything
Free Music Notes for Wilco (The Album)
Free Music Review: delving deeper
Hit: 5 Stars
Whereas Wilco's previous release, Sky Blue Sky proved a more subtle, subdued offering than the highly ambitious A Ghost is Born, their newest album Wilco (The Album) is a return to form of sorts. Not in the sense that it is a better record, as AGIB will always be hard to out-do; I think, though, that Sky Blue Sky was more of a physical and psychological confessional realized by Jeff Tweedy after how hard life crashed when AGIB was released. Both Tweedy and Wilco are recharged with their newest, self-entitled album. Lyrically and musically, it delivers a stronger punch, representing one who has just dusted themselves off after being kicked to the curb. Symbolically, it's evident throughout...from the choice of the gruff desert survivor of a camel to adorn their cover to the songs titled I'll Fight and Everlasting Everything.
Wilco delves into the stuff "deeper down", the realization of one's dead weight, what it takes to shed it and get back to flying again. And instead of it being something as easy as say, handshake drugs, it is something more communal. At once the listener will recognize that it's a sense of unity, not only with Wilco's fans but with loved ones in general. Be that as it may, this isn't necessarily a happy album. Tweedy slyly muses how every generation seems to have it worse than their predecessors and how not caring may be the only reasonable comfort available to us. Powerlessness is indeed a major theme, for in the face of crushed cities, little more can be done beyond than just taking care of ourselves.
Typical of any Wilco album, their characteristic sound contains equal parts of Tweedy's vocals and acoustic guitar, mixed with atmospheric piano and keyboard, catchy percussion and the ever-deft artistry of Nels Cline at electric guitar. Tweedy's lyrics aren't watered down as they are simply concise and uncomplicated, with standout tracks being Deeper Down, One Wing, I'll Fight and Country Disappeared and Everlasting Everything. Overall, Wilco is poised for yet another ascent.
Wilco (The Album) Poster
Wilco's seventh disc, Wilco (the album), took shape quickly in January '09 after the band traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to participate in an Oxfam International benefit project. The band began cutting tracks for the new album, producing it themselves with the help of engineer Jim Scott. The sextet completed the disc at its Chicago studio and performed some of the new material in April at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; where the Times-Picayune praised the band's 'thrilling,nuanced set.' Wilco (the album) combines the intimacy of its previous studio disc, Sky Blue Sky (2007), with the experimentation of A Ghost
Is Born (2004) in a set that boasts strong melodies and gorgeous, often unabashedly pop arrangements. Wilco has clearly laid out the welcome mat to admirers of all aspects of its career; in fact, the disc opens with 'Wilco (the song)' originally unveiled in the group's performance on The Colbert Report last October in which Tweedy & Co. offer their fans 'a sonic shoulder
to cry on,' promising,'Wilco will love you, baby.' Talking to a Rolling Stone reporter, drummer Glenn Kotche calls it 'a great, upbeat song professing our love for our fans.' That said, Tweedy's lyrics remain frank and fascinating; Rolling Stone calls them
'sly, insightful and often heartbreaking.' As with Sky Blue Sky, most of the tracks are concise in shape; 'Bull Black Nova,' however, features a dramatically building arrangement and thrilling guitar crescendo, more duel than jam. It's followed by the gentler 'You and I,' a duet between Tweedy and Canadian singer- songwriter Feist, and 'You Never Know,' a gloriously anthemic track that is the album's first single. The disc culminates with 'Everlasting Everything' a piano-driven ballad with delicate sonic nuances that lyrically celebrates love's endurance.
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