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Salon.com's song of the day for 20 March


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Salon.com's "Audiofile" column has "What Light" as its song of the day today.

 

I'm pretty sure that non-subscribers can access this page and the download (128 kbps MP3), though you may have to click through some advertising to do so.

 

Here's the accompanying text:

 

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Song of the Day: "What Light," Wilco

 

"What Light" is the first I've heard from Wilco's upcoming "Sky Blue Sky" album, which is due out in May. After two albums in a row of restless experimentation, the song's straight-ahead country rock vibe comes as a bit of a surprise, albeit a comfortable, melodic one. Wouldn't it be great if the rest of the album followed "What Light's" template? As good as they were, I thought parts of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost Is Born" got bogged down in electronic experimentation. Gussying up a good song doesn't always make it better -- and the simple, airy treatment given to "What Light" makes it easy to tell just how good a song it is.

 

-- David Marchese

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Song of the Day: "What Light," Wilco

Wouldn't it be great if the rest of the album followed "What Light's" template?

-- David Marchese

 

No, David, it wouldn't.

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AGIB and YHF = not electronic "experimentation"

 

Yes, one has a noise track (Sonic Youth is not electronic experimentation) and a Krautrock inspired song and the other has a few bleeps and bloops to close out some tracks but these are still rock/pop/alternative/whatever albums, not something entirely made on a Mac.

I know he says "parts" of it get bogged down, but I read so many times that these albums were some great electronic experiment or something to the effect of that. And it really doesn't even apply to AGIB.

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I thought parts of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost Is Born" got bogged down in electronic experimentation.

 

 

I will never understand why some call AGIB "experimentation." To me it just sounds like a rock record...

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Yeah, doesn't every album feature a ten-minute motorik epic? And there's nothing weird about 12 minutes of whale noises. Or squalls that sound like the guitar equivalent of the Holocaust, for that matter.

 

Really, come on, people.

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I think I may steal this description, if you don't mind. :pirate

Compared to Einsturzende Neubauten or Missing Foundation, that drone is like Weimar Republic German Army manuevers with wooden rifles and bicycle tanks.

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Compared to Einsturzende Neubauten or Missing Foundation, that drone is like Weimar Republic German Army manuevers with wooden rifles and bicycle tanks.

:lol

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