Star Wars
With its $0 asking price, lawsuit-baiting title, and feline cover art, Wilco's latest album is loose, low-stakes, and fun, adjectives that no one has used to describe Wilco since Being There. It's also Wilco at their most concise and airtight, with songs piercing and subtle enough to get under your skin.
In an email sent to Wilco’s mailing list, Jeff Tweedy characterized the band’s surprise-released record Star Wars as “a jolt of joy: a fun surprise.” Although words such as “fun,” “joy,” and (on recent albums) “surprise” aren’t sentiments generally equated with the band’s music, his description is dead on: Star Wars…
Arriving out of nowhere, if not from a galaxy far, far away, Wilco's new LP surfaced last night, and we've not stopped listening since. Here are our first impressions.
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