Bad Ambassador

I've got that one lossless, in FLAC format, somewhere on one of my dvd-r data discs. If you still need it, let me know.

Can I add a request for this please?

No UK stores appear to have the vinyl in stock yet either.

Received my double vinyl set here in the UK. Came in this morning's post, in absolutely mint condition. It would seem that the best way to get good service from musictoday is to live outside of the US.

Isn't the feature supposed to be throwaway observations and occassional humour? It makes it quite clear that it's a first listen, when very few of us can immediately say a record is great. I don't think this is intended to be a serious review - there is an offical review in the same paper, a couple of pages away from this.

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (3/5)

Dorian Lynskey

Friday May 11, 2007

The Guardian

So it looks as if, beneath all the static and the krautrock jams, Wilco never wanted to be the American Radiohead after all. In a U-turn that could have been no more decisive if they had smashed their computers with lengths of wood, they've looped back to the hazy soft-rock summers of their youth. Jeff Tweedy opens his first album since kicking painkiller addiction by crooning, "Maybe the sun will shine today and crowds will roll away", to the sound of Laurel Canyon 1972. On its own terms, Sky Blue Sky succeeds: it's tender, poignant and sumptuously textured, occasionally jolted into fiery life by flaring guitar passages redolent of Neil Young or Television. But anyone who thought Wilco were interested in the future of Americana will be profoundly disappointed.