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Wilco
Wilco (The Album)
(Nonsuch, 2009)
Well-adjusted Wilco album still dangerously good.
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Lurking at Number 34 in MOJO's albums of the year, the seventh Wilco record topped my own list having seeped into my cell-structure via several brisk walks with an ipod and a rainy trip across the Scottish highlands with it playing on the car stereo. Anyone contemplating a similar journey would do well to skip track four, however. Bull Black Nova, Wilco's own cross-country murder song about a fugitive killer ("This can't be undone / Can't be outrun") complete with horror soundtrack piano and insistent groove is brilliantly agonised, but a bit too nervy for a perilously wet mountain road. Thank God for this album's breadth and variety, then. Skip from Wilco (The Song)'s '70s pop stomp to You And I, Tweedy's country-soul duet with Leslie Feist and look, here comes the sun again. Or more accurately, My Sweet Lord, with You Never Know's nod to George Harrison, jangling guitars chivvying youthful nihilism ("All you fat followers get fit fast / Every generation thinks it's the last"). It's testimony to the stability of the current Wilco line-up that Wilco (The Album) sounds as consistent as it does. "Play the hits", someone called out at a recent London show. "Where have you been?" Asked a bemused Jeff Tweedy. "These are the hits". Be it baroque Summerteeth melodies, the avant-rock cred of A Ghost Is Born era Wilco or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's Eno-gone country innovations, Wilco (The Album) consolidates the group's disparate strands into a most satisfying whole. And come to think of it, if ever a band were ripe to be Eno'd, it's Wilco. There's an idea for album number eight.
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 04/12/2009
Further Listening
Sky Blue Sky – Wilco (Nonsuch, 2007)
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle – Bill Callahan (Drag City, 2009)
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (Apple/EMI, 1970)
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poorly written, your punchline wasn't until the end - and aren't 7 albums enough?
Posted by urban monster at 7:23 AM GMT 04/12/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: urban monster punchlines are supposed to be at the end you numpty
Posted by bungle at 2:52 PM GMT 04/12/2009 Report Abuse
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maybe Urban Monster was referring to him/herself as in "[I know this is] poorly written [because I appear to believe that it's wrong that] your punchline wasn't until the end - [perhaps I will now confuse everyone further by blurting out] and aren't 7 albums enough?"
You know, that kind of thing...
Posted by CarnivalDave at 3:45 PM GMT 04/12/2009 Report Abuse
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