“It's a multi-layered affair but each one provokes serious feelings and thoughts for those who peel them back.”
“Since Wilco’s last album, 2016’s Schmilco, frontman Jeff Tweedy has been busy, releasing three solo albums (including one, Warmer, just three months ago) and writing an autobiography. Yet his creative well is far from dry. While the downbeat folk stylings that dominate here mean the exuberant pop sensibilities of 1999’s Summerteeth, and the envelope-pushing that defined his band’s 00s output, and ”
“After 25 years and ten albums, there should be an element of predictability to Wilco, especially given that the second half of that run has been spent with an unchanged line-up as cosily familiar as your favourite dad-rock cardigan. After all, long gone are the days of Wilco being touted as the American Radiohead, making confrontational experimental rock music slathered in drones and noise; the tu”
“The group’s 11th LP, their best in years, is a beautiful exercise in downhearted uplift.”
“Wilco’s 11th album is direct and spacious, centering on the beauty of quiet revelation.”
“Title is a fitting description of an album with a subtle sense of buoyancy”
