lost highway

Just got this in the mail. It was super interesting, especially to hear from Tom Schick who's pretty much Loft staff at this point. Talented engineer.

Here, you can listen to "Love Is Everywhere (Beware)" https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/all-songs-considered/id79687345?i=1000444581104&fbclid=IwAR26My8ZbkGbgR35XXdoMD72kOj0dBJ4iKLweTlks2lNTyt4dD9dgzy52IU I'm definitely seeing a pretty, pastoral vibe emerging for this record.

I'm excited. And I'll probably be getting on a plane when everyone's enjoying whatever this is.

I always love when you guys get to bask in your occasional and temporary importance. Do you ever think Nebraskans get jealous?

Yeah, he's my second to last choice for president. Trump of course is the last choice and I will do all kinds of rhetorical gymnastics to explain to my friends that their obligation is to vote for the lesser of two evils (thereby reducing evil) if he is the nominee. My bet is on Warren, but I'd take Sanders. There are things to like about Booker, Buttigeg and Harris, but there are things to wonder about. I kind of feel like everyone else is so far from a possible nominee that they're not worth talking about at this point.

I seriously think this is the first misstep in their career. I know some folks were thrown by One Beat, others by The Woods, but I love both and really thought they could do no wrong. The new songs sounded kind of lame on Fallon and it seems that's why one of the top 10 rock drummers is packing her bags.

So now we've seen 3 debuts, one of which was the recording and you had to be at Mass MOCA (I wasn't). If 3 songs could be a clear indicator (and they probably never are in a Wilco record), the 2 they debuted last night and the 1 a few folks listened to at the Genelec installation seem to point towards a lush and pretty album of ballads. Neither the spiky rock of SW, nor the off-kilter folk of Schmilco. Or they're sitting on another 8-9 crunchy rockers, or noisy freakouts. Still hard to say.

It's phenomenal. Memorable in part for the hyper-vivid desert landscape description, and for the stomach churning violence. Maybe his best book? This is what I'm slowly meandering through right now:

Says Tweedy: “I think [the hiatus] revitalized everyone’s energy for the band, and our interest in pushing forward and not just resting on some past output. Everybody in the band is pretty ambitious. It’s good to let go of something that’s a huge, identifying part of your life, and realize that you still have deep affection for it and a deep interest in having it be a living, breathing entity capable of surprising you.”

Fan here. I'll take any cut from The Whole Love any day. And I'll even applaud them knocking an AM song of their setlist to do it. But that's not the point. This is just an example of how- as with the "fans would rather hear their old songs" idea- it all depends on who you talk to. How many times has someone on here griped about the inevitability of a Jesus Etc performance only to be rebuked by someone who says they've seen them a dozen times and is happy to hear it on any night? Wilco can't be a nostalgia act because their music, their influences and their fan base are a messy democratic,

They really had fun with Not For The Season. It's interesting how it became an acoustic staple and the band kind of took up a similar, tighter version with just some more dynamics and a little guitar weirdness. Now it's like the Loose Fur version again, but more since there's a bigger ensemble. All kinds of playful, avant noodling.

Pretty nice little treat. Only complaint is that Pat and John's backups were totally inaudible.

What a dick move. People are terrible.

He was talking about Warm as it was being released, and Warmer was already recorded. But it's all part of the same stream. Wilco demos start off the same way as the Sukierae songs, and the Warm/Warmer songs, it really comes down to how he allocates them at this point.

Okay, I'm not crazy: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/jeff_tweedy_talks_about_his_new_memoir_new_wilco_and_touring_with_bob_dylan He says back in November he was currently doing recording to prepare for the upcoming Wilco sessions.

Someone on here with a better memory could offer the references. They had instagram stuff showing them working in the loft and Jeff mentioned some things in interviews.

They haven't said enough (from the gossip mill/interviews I've seen at least) to know. If it is done then we're waiting for graphic design, mastering, pressing etc but we might all be jumping the gun. Only time will tell.

Nicely done.

I can't get over the combination of facts: - We know they've recorded a bunch of new stuff at the Loft already - They're playing Austin City Limits in the fall - Glenn already has replaced his Schmilco kick drum head Does this mean a new record is going to surprise us sooner than later? I know it's just a bass drum head but why would he change it already, unless it's not album related and it's just a goof. What is Adam West with a bomb trying to tell us? Oh, and also. I'm predicting LP11 will rock harder than Schmilco, but not as hard as Star Wars.

High Heat, Blasting Fonda, Message From Mid-Bar, Kicking Television?

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see another cheeky, non-serious album design from them.

Yeah, I feel the same. I think Pelosi is pretty sharp in steadying congressional hands on that trigger. They would need to gamble that the process would unearth information that would thoroughly (further) disgust the majority of Americans, and that might actually get some GOP senators to feel like they need to turn their backs on their boss to earn cred with voters. Pretty high bar. Then again, knowing what we know they might have a moral obligation to go for it.

Also, debating SY records is fun cause it's such an abstract critical game. To my ears their best stuff always bridges the gap between chaos/abstraction and pop precision. This kept me very satisfied with their output the last 5-10 years they existed. Goo is so much tighter and more direct, but still like nothing no one else could even try and make. It's like Daydream Nation stripped for export.

Well, I guess I'm with you cause my favorite album of theirs isn't an album "Superfuzz Bigmuff plus" is largely built of those singles.

They cornered the market on literate, poetic punk rock. Musically they started out as pretty straight forward punk, and became more expansive over the years. They were one of the crew of bands that got accused of inventing emo and didn't really know what to do with the term. It's rough around the edges in a way that might need teenage ears to be initiated, but you never know, I've met 40-something converts. https://youtu.be/2em3Lm-ssDs