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I'm surprised this isn't being discussed. Did anyone catch the web stream on their website over the weekend? Amazing stuff. Discuss.
It's pretty cool for the first third or so, but then the string section fades in and it becomes amazing.So fucking gorgeous, akin to something from Neil Young's Harvest:
Great album, and a total grower. Personal highlights: Art of Almost, I Might, Dawned On Me, Black Moon, and Standing O. Like I said in the Music Discussion thread, there's a great mix between pure pop songs and somewhat experimental tracks. This could very well be an Album of the Year contender.
Also, I have no idea how the riff from One Sunday Morning doesn't get annoying over the course of twelve minutes, but I love it.
Really happy to say that this grew on me significantly with the second listen. Dawned On Me and Capitol City are such wonderful callbacks to Summerteeth's pop sensibility (the latter essentially Pieholden Suite with a more coherent structure). There are some aggressively experimental moments too, but the songwriting is so deft (re: plays to the band's strengths, isn't especially sentimental) here that I generally don't care too much about the lack of guitar runs. Art of Almost builds to a fucking awesome crescendo, and the sprawling structure of One Sunday Morning is entirely welcome. I think my favorite track is Black Moon for its warmth and intimacy.
The Whole Love is battling it out with A Ghost Is Born for 4th in my Wilco rankings. TWL doesn't have a great deal of highlights like AGIB, but it doesn't have its head a mile up its own ass either.
I just read the Pitchfork review. Despite the 6.9 rating, it is actually a really great review so I don't get the rating. Not that I care much what they think.
Yeah, I thought exactly the same. It reads like a 8.0 or so review. I don't care about the rating though. I thought the guy did a good job explaining some of what is good in the record.
Burned this to a cd and the thing fucking shattered inexplicably in a stack of other cds I keep in my car. Some kind of omen?
Just wanted to pop in and say this album rocks because my Grammy award winning friend Tom Schick, was the engineer on this record!!!!!!
I need to get this; have heard nothing from it.
I feel so out of the loop - are they on tour? Did I miss my chance to see them in the PNW?