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...oblique opener “At Least That’s What You Said” and the whirring pomposity of “Less Than You Think.” But focusing on its quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy??s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful Thinking” to jangly Clear Channel cutdown “The Late Greats.” Unofficial concert poet laureate of Chicago Thax Douglas will be sorely missed, but the inevitable “Heavy Metal...
...Trying to Break Your Heart,” which opens the album, is perhaps the most gorgeous song Jeff Tweedy has ever written. Built upon a lush, jagged drum beat, the song mines Tweedy??s favorite theme—twisted, bitter love. He is one of the premier lyricists working in rock music today; few songwriters take as much joy in manipulating words. “I am an American aquarium drinker/ I assassin down the avenue/ I’m hiding out in the big city blinking/ What was I thinking when...
...country” timbre. And when multi-instrumentalist/technician Jay Bennet (i.e. the banjo guy) left Wilco earlier this year, so too did the all-defining Wilco gimmick. Bennet left behind a deflated effigy of a band, an artifact which in its present incarnation is almost unrecognizable (save Jeff Tweedy??s unmistakably textured vocals). In a sense, the whole quiditas of Wilco, at least the Wilco of 1996’s epic double album Being There, was lost with Jay Bennet...
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