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  • Audio CD (29 Jun 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • ASIN: B0029358GM
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,155 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Seven albums in and you’d think by now you’d be able to second-guess Wilco, but Wilco (The Album) suggests Jeff Tweedy and friends have made a neat job of exploring their field and surrounding territory--loosely, a cosmic-tinged Americana--without ever sounding like they might be in danger of getting stranded for keeps in any one particular ditch. Certainly softer than earlier, errant albums such as 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, Wilco (The Album) sees the band working towards a soft, luxurious AOR sound, albeit one dotted lightly with moments of characteristic invention. The opening "Wilco (The Song)" is a neatly self-referential beginning, one bound to find a cosy place in future live setlists, while "Bull Black Nova" adds a liquid Krautrock undercurrent and "You And I", a duet with Feist, is a love song with a difference: "You and I, we might be strangers / However close we get sometimes, it’s like we never met". Grown-up? Certainly--but Wilco make a good case for it. "Every generation thinks it’s the end of the world",croons Tweedy on the sweet, Dylan-esque gospel of "You Never Know", and he couldn’t sound happier. --Louis Pattison


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Though many fans suspected that Wilco's self-titled seventhstudio album would mark a return to the wild cut-and-paste experimentalism of YANKEE FOXTROT HOTEL, the record was in fact more of a piece with its traditional-sounding 2007 predecessor, SKY BLUE SKY. Heavily influenced by `60s and `70s pop music, songs like "Sunny Feeling" and "You Never Know" sounded as if the band might have been finally attempting to score the elusive hit single. Beginning with a powerful riff reminiscent of the Kinks' "Picture Book," the disc is all strummy guitars, tinkling keyboards, big choruses, George Harrison-style slide guitar, and stacked harmony vocals, conjuring aural images of bands such as Love, Wings, and Badfinger. Throughout, the songwriting is tight and focused, making WILCO one of the most instantly accessible albums in the Chicago-based group's catalogue.

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wilco the album - a one hump or two hump camel?, 2 Jul 2009
A few years back I found myself part of a persecuted minority. I was sadly part of those few deluded souls who felt that Wilco's "Sky blue sky" was a brilliant album that included tunes with dangerous hints of melody and some of there greatest songs (Impossible Germany is by any standards in the Wilco top 5). True it lacked the experimentation of the wonderful "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel" but Jeff Tweedy had followed this with the equally experimental "Ghost is born" and frankly after listening to the 15 minute drone dirge on that album "less than you think" I needed a break from his tablet induced moroseness.

"Sky blue Sky" was labelled in some quarters (very stupid quarters it has to be said) as "Dad rock" and some people started to talk about Wilco as if they had died and been replaced by some back to basics alt country monster. What then about the Wilco (the album), can it satisfy both the experimentalists and the traditionalists? The answer is it does not need to. Wilco are band that don't stand still and all of their albums are mini statements of where Jeff Tweedy's mental condition and state of happiness can be located. As it stands for the present it is at the happier end of the scale and we should be thankful for that. WTA is very different in many respects from "Sky blue sky" but it is not a radical departure.

The songs throughout the album are hook laden, melodic but also challenging. Some are very poppy in a "Summerteeth" way, others could be straight of Sky blue sky and equally importantly a couple would have sat easily on "Bring there" which by any standards is their masterpiece (RIP the late great Jay Bennett one of the drivers of Wilco who died tragically young at the age of 45 in May 2009)

The album starts off with the Velvet Underground driven riff of "Wilco the song" packed with ironic and funny lyrics from Tweedy and a wonderful start to the album as he playfully asks -

"Do you dabble in depression,
Is someone twisting a knife in your back,
Are you being attacked,
Oh, this is a fact,
That you need to know,
Oh, oh, oh, oh Wilco",

Next up is the lovely "Deeper down" which is followed by 3 of the albums highlights. "One wing" is a very reflective and sparse love song which I find very difficult to stop playing at the present. Nels Cline again proves here that he is one of the great original rock guitarists with a wonderful solo. Black Bull Nova could have been on Ghost is born. It drives along with a beat not unlike Spiders but is a very different song. It is very much "experimental Wilco and ends in a huge cacophony of Clines guitar work and thumping piano. Next up is "You and I" a lovely duet with the Fiest. It is lightweight and gorgeous pop music.

"Country disappeared" is a grower and the more I hear it the more I sense that this might be a live anthem for the band. "I'll Fight" on the other hand could be in next weeks American country chart it is matched in pop terms by "Sunny feeling" a highly commercial slice of Americana. The album ends with "Everlasting" a classic Wilco sound and song which I suspect may be the best on the album.

All Wilco albums creep up on you with little nuances and subtleties and perhaps a weakness of Wilco the album might be its sheer accessibility suggesting that some inner depth may be missing? Time will be the only judge of its durability. But for now its one of my favourite albums of 2009 which is a high compliment bearing in mind what a great year this is turning out to be. Let us finally leave with a quote from the wonderful Aquarium Drunkard blog which puts in words far more eloquently than I can muster a judgement on the band which any true Wilco fan can endorse -

"Wilco (The Album) refuses to settle for mediocrities--both from itself and its audience--and is the more courageous album for it. And if the sound of six of the world's best musicians banging out spangled and bejewelled pop-rock doesn't get you off, then you may want to reconsider your record collection".
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5.0 out of 5 stars A welcome Wilco return!, 17 Jun 2009
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Being an enthusiast of Wilco's more experimental phase (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a Ghost is Born), I kind of missed the boat with Sky Blue Sky. You know sometimes you can't explain why an album misses the mark, any more than you can explain what makes a classic album a classic album, it just didn't do it for me. With Wilco (the album), Jeff Tweedy has done an In Rainbows (a lazy comparison maybe), and staddled the line of being faithful to their genre a la Being There and the more free thinking experi-jams of later works. Most importantly the album is crammed with class A tunesmithery which hangs together beautifully and, to me anyway, has that gonna-be-a-classic feel to it, where the sequencing of the tracks is of huge importance. The song writing is eclectic and holds ones interest (and frequently, ones breath) from start to finish and the band play beautifully, with tinkering, tinkling guitar runs and beautifully understated keys and piano motifs just bubbling under Jeff's intimate, confessional vocal. Sounds great wherever you are but highly recommended through a decent set of headphones with, preferably and decent glass of red wine and the sun just dipping below the horizon. Everyone should have this in their collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wilco deliver a masterpiece, 16 Jun 2009
By Johnny Rocker (London, England) - See all my reviews
In a world absorbed in chaos, Wilco deliver a cohesive and effortlessly confident masterpiece. It's an album crafted by a group of souls that have found a common thread which weaves a sound of pure emotion, exuding sheer joy and hope in current times when such feelings appear out of reach to many.

If you are coming to Wilco for the first time, then buy with confidence.

If you are a well travelled fan, this album, for the very reasons above, could feel lightweight on first hearing. The groove that connects the members of this group etches an album void of the jarring and dischordant edges that have been the trademark of Jeff Tweedy's merry men over their albums in the `Noughties'.

If intial listening to `Summerteeth' and `Yankee Hotel Foxtret' required an element of perceptive re-tuning of how one listened to a Wilco record, then `Wilco (the album)' almost requires a perceptive de-tuning when listening to it. In strictly Wilco terms only, it's their `Wilco Lite' record. On the surface at least.

Their prior albums have spanned such a kaleidoscope of sonics and styles, albeit rooted in Tweedy's infused sense of American musical heritage, that to even suggest the notion that Wilco's 8th album could possibly offer anything approaching a fresh experience for their established fans would seem far fetched. Yet somehow, ths album does exactly that.

The album opener is a congruent rocker. A manifesto proclamation that now that Wilco - the band - have found a peace within themselves, they can offer a musical 911 / 999 service to their fans and spread the good vibes! How charming. It is alarming infectious.

But the lead `radio' track on this album is `You never know', surely a homage to George Harrison's `All Things Must Pass' era, consciously or not, which insists you play it on repeat.

`Bull black nova' is a Loose Fur-esque screamer.

`Deeper Down', `Country disappeared', `Solitaire' are fine mid-tempo Wilco tracks.

`You and I' (the duet with Feist), `I'll Fight' and `One Wing' are sing-a-long-ingly sweet`n'sour love songs.

The album closes with the affecting `Everlasting Everything', which unintentionally will no doubt carry an intensity for long term Wilco fans, who may find it hard to not listen to the soul baringly straight talking lyric ('Everything alive must die...') and avoid having a thought or two for the former Wilco member Jay Bennett, who died last month.

Whilst this record neither displays emotions of uncontrolled angst, nor laconic aloofness, it is a record that is hard not to listen to over and over again. Wilco have delivered a damn near perfect album.

Buy and enjoy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Have you had enough of the old? Wilco will love you, baby...
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