Alternative rock band Wilco release their 7th studio album "Wilco (The Album)". The recording features the first duet for Wilco, "You and I", which was recorded with Canadian indie folk artist "Feist". The LP is pressed on audiophile-quality, 180-gram vinyl and includes the full album on CD.
The new offering by the Chicago sextet features, among other things, eleven new songs, a duet with Canadian songwriter/vocalist Leslie Feist and a camel named Alfred as its cover star.
The new songs find Tweedy juxtaposing heady, heavy themes like disillusionment (Country Disappeared), martyrdom (Ill Fight) and homicide (Bull Black Nova) with acceptance (You Never Know), love (You and I), humor (Wilco (the song)) and more. Sonically the album draws on many of the best elements of Wilco's wide-ranging previous work, while incorporating Tweedy's objective to "use the studio as another instrument. The result is a unique, complex endeavor.
After several weeks of writing and recording in Auckland where they were invited to participate in the 7 Worlds Collide benefit album, one by one, band members returned to Chicago. Joined by Jim Scott and loaded with inspiration and vision, the full band reconvened at the Loft in Chicago. From there the process was swift. Together with Scott, the six members worked, collaborating further on what they had started in October (following the release of Sky Blue Sky) and expanding on what was recorded in New Zealand. Feist made a guest appearance at the Loft in February to record a duet that Tweedy had sent her months earlier, and the new record was done.
"...musically, Wilco (the album) offers a little bit of everything while making good on frontman Jeff Tweedy's stated goal to use 'the studio as another instrument." - Billboard
Features:
180 Gram High-Performance Audiophile Vinyl!
Mastered from original tapes
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
CD of the entire album
Selections:
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
The new offering by the Chicago sextet features, among other things, eleven new songs, a duet with Canadian songwriter/vocalist Leslie Feist and a camel named Alfred as its cover star.
The new songs find Tweedy juxtaposing heady, heavy themes like disillusionment (Country Disappeared), martyrdom (Ill Fight) and homicide (Bull Black Nova) with acceptance (You Never Know), love (You and I), humor (Wilco (the song)) and more. Sonically the album draws on many of the best elements of Wilco's wide-ranging previous work, while incorporating Tweedy's objective to "use the studio as another instrument. The result is a unique, complex endeavor.
After several weeks of writing and recording in Auckland where they were invited to participate in the 7 Worlds Collide benefit album, one by one, band members returned to Chicago. Joined by Jim Scott and loaded with inspiration and vision, the full band reconvened at the Loft in Chicago. From there the process was swift. Together with Scott, the six members worked, collaborating further on what they had started in October (following the release of Sky Blue Sky) and expanding on what was recorded in New Zealand. Feist made a guest appearance at the Loft in February to record a duet that Tweedy had sent her months earlier, and the new record was done.
"...musically, Wilco (the album) offers a little bit of everything while making good on frontman Jeff Tweedy's stated goal to use 'the studio as another instrument." - Billboard
Features:
180 Gram High-Performance Audiophile Vinyl!
Mastered from original tapes
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
CD of the entire album
Selections:
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
