Wilco - Wilco (The Album)

Heavyweight 180 gram high-performance vinyl includes bonus CD of the complete album.

Wilco's seventh disc, Wilco (the album), took shape quickly in January 2009 after the band travelled 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.

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 have clearly laid out the welcome mat to admirers of all aspects of their career; in fact, the disc opens with 'Wilco (the song)' in which Tweedy & Co offer their fans "a sonic shoulder to cry on" promising, "Wilco will love you baby". 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, the album's first single, and 'You Never Know', a gloriously anthemic track. The disc culminates with 'Everlasting Everything' a piano-driven ballad with delicate sonic nuances that lyrically celebrates love's endurance.

Wilco (the album) follows the release of 'Ashes Of American Flags', a live DVD that artfully captures both the mood and the music during the band's 2008 journey by bus across the US.

TRACKLISTING: 1 Wilco (The Song), 2 Deeper Down, 3 One Wing, 4 Bull Black Nova, 5 You And I, 6 You Never Know, 7 Country Disappeared, 8 Solitaire, 9 I'll Fight, 10 Sonny Feeling, 11 Everlasting Everything,

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