“The fact that this transitional album exists at all is what makes it special”
“This reissue stays true to the darkness and exuberance that defined the band’s revelatory 1999 album.”
“For all that musicians have spilled their guts about the pitfalls of the rock and roll lifestyle—the usual drugs, excesses, etc.—it’s relatively rare to get a window into the toll that success takes on families. In that regard, Wilco’s third album Summerteeth doesn’t offer much, if anything, by way of explicit insights, but it does stand as an affecting example of the anguish that can creep into a”
“On their third album, Summer Teeth, Wilco create the roots-rock answer to Beck’s Odelay, if not to Brian Eno’s Another Green World. Like Beck and Eno, and Brian Wilson and the Beatles before them, Wilco use the studio like an instrument, unreeling minimovies of the imagination, blending and then bending the sound of guitars, drums […]”
