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Robert Christgau on WTA: http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/?photoidx=10

I'd go with "alt-country", "the American Radiohead", or "dad-rock".

From "5 Things We Don't Want You to Miss", Reader's Digest, June 2007, p 30: (CD) Sky Blue Sky, the latest release from Wilco, is a hopeful, homespun, melodic collection of tunes from the six-piece Chicago band led by songsmith Jeff Tweedy. [text over photo band]

I don't remember any threads on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D85f5BlgOQs...ted&search=

http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-05-02/music/b...orthy-or-banal/ Buzz-Worthy or Banal? Wilco erects a great divide By Ian Froeb and Jonah Bayer Published: May 2, 2007 Wilco's latest album, Sky Blue Sky (due out May 15), so far appears to be polarizing fans and critics alike. They either love or loathe the group's meandering, rootsy direction. In the spirit of open critical dialogue, here are two takes on Sky from longtime fans

http://music.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,2030994,00.html

From sonorama.net (english language version): Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (in their finest hour) This year habra arrasadores returns, and without fear to mistake almost podria to affirm to me as the three better productions would seran. Of one of them it is of whom I come to speak a little now to them. Nadamas treats that of Wilco, that after an absence of almost three years of the studies, returns imminent and in form. Sky Blu Sky is I title of new long play of this American band. Perhaps for many the emanated sound of this album, because it tends to rescue but the pure escencia of which someti