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Artist - Wilco
Title - Sky Blue Sky
Year of Release - 2007
Record Label - Nonesuch
Genre - Rock
I'm not sure what happened to Wilco on this album. Nearly all of the songs sound the same. The ones that don't sound the same don't really impress either. 'Impossible Germany' probably qualifies as the best song on the disc, but the solo on the end doesn't mesh well with the rest of the track. Usually I'm very fond of Cline's guitar work (see Ashes of American Flags on the Kicking Television live record) but here it's annoying, rapidly morphing into a collection of high-pitched electronic squawks and warbles that do nothing to help along the first bit of the track. I heard the band play 'Impossible Germany' live last October. Then, it sounded like Zeppelin, and it was good. Here, it sounds like a headache, and it is bad.
The lack of a strong, heavier rock backing to pretty much all of the songs means that the album rides on its lyrics. Unfortunately, Tweedy's songwriting falls flat. Summerteeth this ain't. There were some weak moments on Ghost, but those were easily excusable. Now take all of those minor weak moments and stretch them across an entire disc. 'Side with the Seeds' is bad (what the hell is Tweedy singing about here?). 'Shake it Off' is even worse, with bad lyrics and terrible music. The 'dah-dee-dum' chord progression throughout forces me to hit the skip button without fail.
The album's ultimate failing is that with pretty much the same musical backing throughout, no track can easily stand apart from another. Good rock albums are about contrast, with harder and softer numbers sprinkled throughout in an alternating fashion, each one setting the other apart; they all stand out. Here that can't happen, and the result is a collection of music that induces nothing but boredom.
I really want to like this disc. It's by Wilco, after all, and they've been one of my most favorite bands for a long time now. But I can't, for the aforementioned reasons. This album has been compared to work by the Eagles. There's two problems with that comparison: the first is that the Eagles already came and went. The adult-contemporary yacht-rock genre is so heavily mined that Wilco isn't setting itself apart here. The second problem is that the Wilco of Sky Blue Sky is simply not as good as the Eagles were.
Title - Sky Blue Sky
Year of Release - 2007
Record Label - Nonesuch
Genre - Rock
I'm not sure what happened to Wilco on this album. Nearly all of the songs sound the same. The ones that don't sound the same don't really impress either. 'Impossible Germany' probably qualifies as the best song on the disc, but the solo on the end doesn't mesh well with the rest of the track. Usually I'm very fond of Cline's guitar work (see Ashes of American Flags on the Kicking Television live record) but here it's annoying, rapidly morphing into a collection of high-pitched electronic squawks and warbles that do nothing to help along the first bit of the track. I heard the band play 'Impossible Germany' live last October. Then, it sounded like Zeppelin, and it was good. Here, it sounds like a headache, and it is bad.
The lack of a strong, heavier rock backing to pretty much all of the songs means that the album rides on its lyrics. Unfortunately, Tweedy's songwriting falls flat. Summerteeth this ain't. There were some weak moments on Ghost, but those were easily excusable. Now take all of those minor weak moments and stretch them across an entire disc. 'Side with the Seeds' is bad (what the hell is Tweedy singing about here?). 'Shake it Off' is even worse, with bad lyrics and terrible music. The 'dah-dee-dum' chord progression throughout forces me to hit the skip button without fail.
The album's ultimate failing is that with pretty much the same musical backing throughout, no track can easily stand apart from another. Good rock albums are about contrast, with harder and softer numbers sprinkled throughout in an alternating fashion, each one setting the other apart; they all stand out. Here that can't happen, and the result is a collection of music that induces nothing but boredom.
I really want to like this disc. It's by Wilco, after all, and they've been one of my most favorite bands for a long time now. But I can't, for the aforementioned reasons. This album has been compared to work by the Eagles. There's two problems with that comparison: the first is that the Eagles already came and went. The adult-contemporary yacht-rock genre is so heavily mined that Wilco isn't setting itself apart here. The second problem is that the Wilco of Sky Blue Sky is simply not as good as the Eagles were.
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