Wilco - "The Album"

schwarcw

Anyone picked this up yet and gave it a listen? My first impressions are very favorable. What's your opinion?

schwarcw

Sorry for the Duplicate post. I'm such a klutz!!!

Graboid

Just picked it up and I like it a lot. It's a much more traditional and less experimental record but many of the tunes are very catchy. The sound is pretty good as well and the CD doesn't apprear to be brickwalled.

fossy

Friend of mine swears by Wilco.......I will have to check um out...haven't they been together for quiet a few years ??

Norm Apter

Yeah, I got a hold of this about a month ago. As with every Wilco album, it takes some time to grow on me. My first time listening to it did not leave a very good impression, but by the 5th or 6th spin it was sitting pretty (other ones took much longer to grow on me)

I think that it a bit more conventional than either A Ghost is Born or Sky Blue Sky, but not to its detriment. I think it might be their strongest effort since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, at least their most solid work since that release. Just my .02.

But seeing Wilco live is where its at...they take it to whole different level. Go, if you can.

Ern Dog

Wilco was playing in my town a few days ago and I didn't go. I don't even know who these guys are. I friend that went to the concert swears by them, so I'm borrowing a cd to see if I like them. So far, I've had one listen and they seemed average, but more will be revealed I'm sure.

schwarcw

I've been listening to this album all week in the car. It has more than grown on me. Some of the tunes just knock me out!

MillerLiteScott

I have spun it a few times. For the most part I like it and I currently prefer side 2. I will have to agree it takes a few spins to appreciate Wilco. I did really like Sky Blue Sky, my kind of music.

Bass_Pedal

I was prepared to be let down, but I was pleasantly surprised at how good this album is. I'm a big fan of Y.H.F. and A Ghost is Born. Sky Blue Sky was nice but it didn't have the same edge as the previous two. While the new album is still quite mellow, the quality songwriting can't be denied. I have to say I prefer side one myself (had to get the LP version of course!) the stretch of "One Wing" - "Bull Black Nova" - "You and I" is IMO the strongest part of the record. It's nice to see good songwriters continue to produce solid material, a rarity in the pop/rock world. Big thumbs up!!!

Norm Apter

Could be off here, but I'm left with the impression that the new album is kind of a culmination or summing up of the work the band has undertaken in their various incarnations thusfar. Kind of a "best of" in style and groove, while still sounding original and not like they are rehashing the past in the slightest.

(Some) Wilco fans are tough crowd to please. Some are attached to the sound of the A.M. / Being There era, others to Summeteeth / YHF, and still others like the abrasiveness of A Ghost is Born or beauty of Sky Blue Sky. In short, I think that for fans who identify with one particular phase (or album) in Wilco's career, there is at least something to really dig into on the new album. For those who have enjoyed Wilco's various incarnations more or less equally over the past 14 years, I think there is much to like here and it will only get better with repeated listenings, and could be seen as one of their most solid albums.

Bass Pedal, I too really enjoy that same three-song stretch you mentioned. It really works well and shows that much thought was put into arranging the album.

But I also really dig Wilco (The Song). When we saw them last month, they opened with that tune; they just jumped out on stage and launched into it. It was like this big blast of energy coming forth, like "Here we are; we're Wilco and we're badasses." Loved it.