Track Listing
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
| Details | | Producer: | Jim Scott, Wilco | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Wilco: Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline, Pat Sansone.
Audio Mixers: Jim Scott; Kevin Dean.
Audio Remasterer: Bob Ludwig.
Though many fans suspected that Wilco's self-titled seventh studio 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 catalog.
Editorial Reviews
The album is full of thoughtful, artfully crafted lyrics wrapped in memorable hooks that should stand the test of time.
Paste
4 stars out of 5 -- Wilco continue to reign in their experimental fuzz, focusing more on pretty melodies, upbeat toe-tappers and sweet acoustic numbers for their seventh full-length.
Alternative Press
WILCO, the band's seventh studio effort, treats verse-chorus-verse basics like holy truths....And it's fantastic.
Spin
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] triumph of determined simplicitiy....What is most striking about the restraint here is the elegance and defiance packed inside.
Rolling Stone
Windows-down anthemic pop like 'You Never Know' sits alongside the tense, textural rocker 'One Wing' and the dark, pulsating murder-escape drama 'Bull Black Nova.'
Billboard
3 stars out of 5 -- 'Bull Black Nova,' something of a 'Spiders' retooling, is pleasingly motorik...
Record Collector
There's a lucidity to the sound and a sense of mix-and-match variety that haven't been heard since YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT...
Dirty Linen
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