Hey... it's Wilco's new album, "Wilco" (genius!). These guys are MAJOR major label so I didn't want to draw too much attention to this post. All I have to say about this one is... THANK GOD they didn't make another "Sky Blue Sky" because I almost swore them off as shit after that "dad rock" album. So Wilco will never make another "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" ... I've come to terms with that. I am fairly sure, even though he is probably a dick, Jay Bennett was the driving creative force in Wilco when that album was made. And now that he is gone they won't be able to make anything like that album ever again. Honestly I'm just glad that this album definitely takes a step in the right direction. They dropped the pretentous "we're not pretentious, so we are gonna make uncomplicated straightforward soul folk rock songs" attitude and actually TRIED to make a layered, complex album. The result: IT WORKS!
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the "we're not pretentious so we're not pretentious, but we really are pretentious" description. It's spot-on
Yeah... I was so disgusted by the interviews with Jeff Tweedy around the release of their last album. He was basically saying he hated how people classified them as "experimental". And how he was sick of all the "artsy" bands and their pretentious attitudes.. and how he just wanted to make a soul record with straightforward lyrics and music. Yeah... it was like radiohead saying that ok computer was a huge mistake... and that really what they wanted to do was make an oasis album or something.
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