wilco

i think YHF is probably the best and most accomplished, but Summerteeth is my sentimental favourite and possibly the most fucked up in its own way.

Not a terrible line-up. Some real surprises in there, actually.

http://solidsoundfestival.com/lineup/

Looks great

So there's a new free album called Star Wars:

http://wilcoworld.net/

it's quite good

The title "Star Wars" has a nice ring to it.

That fuzz guitar on the first three or four tracks gets a little monotonous, but yeah that's nitpicking, and it's really good.

really, wow. was not expecting this, will have to give it a listen here soon.

downloading album from site, not sure what to expect from Wilco.

"you satellite" is a major jam

this is the first wilco record i've enjoyed in ages

me too. since... a ghost is born

sky blue sky was disappointing at the time but sounds good in retrospect/against their subsequent records

yeah this is really good

Wilco had been hinting at a full shift into a skronky pop outfit for a couple of albums, nice to hear them finally give in. Sounds very ... youthful? Good summer record regardless, looking forward to hearing stuff from it tonight. Love Greg Kot's take: "This is an album full of trap doors and trick turns."

yah this is nice! very summer as you said.

the end jamming out on you satellite is great

ok i downloaded this... i am going to listen to it!
wilco was prettay good when i saw them this week -- maybe a bit stadium rock-y for my tastes, but that is more my problem. they are certainly a deeply versatile and talented live band these days.

I like this?

Would never pay for another album but will listen for free

haha, this is pretty good! i don't think i've deeply disliked any of the latter day wilco albums, but i haven't felt *excited* about any of them. this one sounds kind of exciting.

Just noticed it's up on Spotify. Too lazy to unzip album downloads anymore.

Wilco album that is

i appreciate the liberal use of flange

"magnetized" is one of the best wilco songs ever

yeah wow, that one is great

My wife made me turn the album down a little. Take that, dad rock!

Love the end of "Where Do I Begin" with the backwards drums and crazy guitar lead

Magnetized is nice but compared to the closing track of the previous album it's a trifle

My favourite on this is More, I think - awesome track

Last song has some Mercury Rev vibes.

best album since Ghost, easy.

no boring stuff. yay

First five tracks are all great, really - a little bit of coasting in the second half but it's a nice record yeah

A super welcome surprise after the last couple records. Btf, I liked The Whole Love but they were obviously trying really hard to deliver a Classic Wilco Album, and while it had experimental bits it lacked the genuine adventurousness of their best stuff.

Still not into Nels Cline - he's a little too "Rig Rundown" for me. Like, even when he's trying to be raw and loose it sounds like his guitar's going through at least a whole board of boutique pedals

Really feelin' "More...", "You Satellite" and "Magnetized"

Killin' it on the 'Fork livestream right now.

they totally had a mercury rev vibe for the first half of their set tonight. even tweedy was shredding. it ruled.

That's funny, my first ever big concert was Mercury Rev opening for Wilco. I tired out halfway thru Wilco but Mercury Rev was magical, I remember Jonathan Donahue in a shiny magenta shirt.

Thought Tweedy was kinda pushy and nevery in Mavis Staples doc footage where he decided he and his son would add instrumentation to late Pop Staples tapes, but back with Wilco I am kind of liking some of this new one.

Glenn and Nels own this record.

Every album since YHF makes it more and more clear how essential Jay Bennett was to the band.

was weird/sad that the cover of the chicago reader's pitchfork fest issue had bennett on it...
http://media2.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/u/original/18327189/reader-pitchfork-2015-900.jpg

make that "ghost jay bennett"

It's the Chicago Reader; I'm not surprised in the least.

yeah that's tasteless

is ariel pink being protested by two people holding signs with rabbits crossed out. the fuck is that

also jfc @ jim derogatis with the mirror

I'm a little surprised at the amount of pushback the band seems to have gotten for playing its new (less than 12 hour old) record in its entirety at Pitchfork. The last time I saw a band at Pitchfork do something surprising was maybe when the Thermals started their set with a handful of '90s alt-rock hits. I wish more bands everywhere would treat festival gigs as more than just another night and do something unique, unexpected or one-off. Boring is a fair criticism, but no Wilco set could have countered that criticism. But indulgent? Man, Panda Bear was indulgent *and* boring, and looked stupid in broad daylight, too. But hey, different strokes ...

playing the new one is the best thing i can imagine! i would've probably liked that better than the greatest hits set i saw last week.

Glenn and Nels own the record? Exciting; best things about this band by far.

Actually, I think as Tweedy gets noisier and solos more himself it's harder to distinguish some of his squonk from Nels (on record). Obviously Nels is a ridiculous guitarist (though I'm not a huge fan, tbh), but his insane precision actually often plays to my ears as a sort of surreal restraint - that is, he is too good to totally go off the map - whereas Tweedy is an OK guitarist, but knows how to play the wrong things at the right time in I suppose a more natural (as opposed to Nels' supernatural) weird way.

My fave thing about Glenn is that his kit keeps shrinking but he keeps putting out the same amount of wildly inventive noise.

That's a very good description.