The Whole Love (Deluxe Version)

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AlbumFeb 03 / 201117 songs, 1h 19m 37s
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Wilco's adventurous, self-produced eighth LP follows 2007's lighter Sky Blue Sky and 2009's self-conscious summary Wilco (The Album). The best thing about this one is the ease with which they've recaptured some of their old unpredictability.

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It’s a little too easy to correlate the relaxed, familiar sound of Wilco’s recent work and the present state of the group, which is as settled as it’s ever been. But after presenting itself as a different band—figuratively and literally—on every album it put out in the ’90s and early ’00s, Wilco has nested on its last…

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There’s a pretty amazing chunk of YouTube clips slowly making rounds around music news sites—a few doozies featuring Wilco…

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The latest Wilco album further drives home the fact that, while there would be no Wilco without leading light Jeff Tweedy, the group is hardly Tweedy-plus-accompanists.

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Having mellowed in recent years, this eighth studio outing represents something of a rebirth.

Wilco's eighth album shows Jeff Tweedy and band maturing nicely, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>

On The Whole Love, Wilco isn’t dealing in portions or halves.

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<strong>Dave Simpson</strong> hails a perfect mix of the accessible and the leftfield from Wilco

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