Ghost in the machine
8/10
All the acrimony surrounding the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, in which Wilco left Warner/Reprise to resist attempts to make the record more commericially viable, seems bizarre now. For despite its moments of sonic chaos, YHF is a great, Beatles-esque, countryfied pop masterpiece with great hooks and immediately indentifiable melodies. [...]
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Alternative, Best of 2004, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock, Prog, Psychedelia, post-rock
Tags:Acoustic·Alt-country·Alt-rock·Best of 2004·Indie·Jef Tweedy·Jim O'Rourke·krautrock·pop·post-rock·slowcore
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
January 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Alternative, Folk/Acoustic, Pop/Rock
I’m The Man Who Loves You
8/10
It took me a long time to come round to Wilco. I had always wrongly thought of them as a square man’s Flaming Lips. While there are superficial resemblances between the two bands, Wilco’s experimental brand of alt-country is focused on more classic pop concerns. The sonic adventurism of Yankee [...]
Tags:alt-county·Alt-rock·Jeff Tweedy·Jim O'Rourke·pop-rock·post-911