Wilco

Wilco – A.M. (Special Edition) (1995/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 11, 2022 · Comments off

At the beginning of the ‘80s, Green On Red (a group that emerged out of the Paisley Underground scene) rehabilitated the most rebellious country music. A few years later, other American indie rock groups enjoyed reviving the flame of this plague-stricken genre. Filtered over time and with a lo-fi aesthetic, this alternative country mixes the heritage of Gram Parsons with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Neil Young, the Byrds from their Sweetheart Of The Rodeo period and the Rolling Stones from Exile On Main Street. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, Uncle Tupelo affirm themselves as one of the most gifted representatives of the genre. But the duo split, with Farrar leaving to found Son Volt and Tweedy heading off down the Wilco path. With A.M., the first shining album from his new combo which appeared in 1995, the songwriter from Illinois confirmed his talent in the art of fusing all his roots influences from the past by giving them a sound that’s considerably rougher and more contemporary. Above all, Jeff Tweedy writes with a pen made of hardened steel. It follows that compositions such as I Must Be High, Casino Queen, Box Full Of Letters and Passenger Side are quick to forget their heavy influences (Stones, Parsons, Young…) and underline the talent of the gentleman. As well as the original album, this remastered Deluxe Edition offers eight bonus unpublished tracks such as first versions of Outtasite (Outta Mind) and When You Find Trouble, in fact being the last studio recording for Uncle Tupelo.

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Wilco – A.M. (1995/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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A.M. is Wilco’s debut album, released on March 28, 1995. Wilco formed out of the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, an alternative country band that many of Wilco’s members had been in previously. The album was a first step into Wilco’s increasingly-adventurous musical territory. Critics modestly liked the album, citing the influence of Gram Parsons and Neil Young.

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Wilco – The Whole Love (Deluxe Version) (2011/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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‘The Whole Love’ is the latest step in the ongoing evolution of Wilco, which Tweedy founded in 1994 after the dissolution of his previous group, alt-country standard-bearers Uncle Tupelo. From its raucous roots-rock origins, Wilco over the years has expanded its sound to encompass classic pop and genre-spanning experimentalism. Wilco also teamed with English singer Billy Bragg in the late ’90s at the invitation of Woody Guthrie’s daughter, who invited them to collaborate on setting to music some of the folk icon’s previously unrecorded lyrics, resulting in a pair of highly regarded Mermaid Avenue albums.

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Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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A ghost is born is the highly anticipated follow-up to the Chicago band’s 2002 recording,Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The new music, recorded at Sear Sound in New York City and Soma E.M.S. in Chicago, features twelve new tracks by Jeff Tweedy and company. It again features the production collaboration of Wilco and Sonic Youth’s Jim O’Rourke.

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Wilco – The Whole Love (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The 8th LP by one of the most critically-acclaimed American bands of the 1990s and 2000s is a perfect summation of Wilco’s heart-wrenching, groundbreaking work to date. Equal parts alt country, old-fashioned rock and roll, and inventive experimentation (avant guitar legend Nels Cline’s solos are particularly mind-bending), the record easily stands among Wilco’s best work.

They both embrace and dismantle the elements of songcraft as an endlessly malleable art form, and do it so gracefully that they’ve made Wilco perhaps America’s best band¦ “Robin Hilton, NPR Music

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Wilco – Cruel Country (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 12, 2022 · Comments off

The dynamic Chicago rock band Wilco returns with its 12th studio album, the first of its kind. Cruel Country is the band’s exploration of the genre they’ve often been defined by but, until now, never fully embraced. The double album features 21 Jeff Tweedy-penned tracks, made almost entirely of live takes, created with all six members together in The Loft for the first time since the 2011 release The Whole Love.

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Wilco – Cruel Country (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Much will be made of Wilco recording a “country” album. Frontman Jeff Tweedy has said that “country music is simply designed to aim squarely at the low-hanging fruit of the truth”—but that’s an idealistic vision that isn’t always true any more. It’s more that the genre understands universality, creating a fantasy of what love should be, of revenge, of a simpler life and time to enjoy it (even if it’s just long enough for a cold beer). Or, too often, the “truth” is little more than a furrowed eyebrow sighing for three minutes over something truly horrible in the world. Thank goodness Wilco doesn’t seem to know this. This record is brutally, beautifully honest. “I don’t mind/ When certain people die/ I can’t cry/ I wonder why,” Tweedy sings on the lazily dreamy “Hearts Hard to Find,” confessing something no one is supposed to say out loud. “It’s worse than neglected when you need the one who loves no more,” he describes Southern border migration on “I Am My Mother.” “There is no middle/ When the other side would rather kill than compromise,” goes “Hints,” an easy connect-the-dots to Mermaid Avenue, the band’s Woody Guthrie project with Billy Bragg—and it doesn’t get more authentically American or country than Guthrie (even if the genre remains sheepish about Guthrie’s socialism). Wilco’s music has always had trace elements of the Grateful Dead—which is, as Margo Price brilliantly put it, “country music for people who also like LSD.” (In the case of Wilco, it’s probably more like Dad Grass.) You can hear it on the title track with its loose and jangling beat, or the sweet and easy skiffle of “All Across the World.” “Many Worlds,” meanwhile, is a seven-minute-long countrified trip that deserves its own laser show. (“When I look at the sky/ I think of all the stars that’ve died,” Tweedy sings, securing his place as the alt-rock Eeyore.) And when the band doubles down on country sounds, it’s a delight. “A Lifetime to Find” is great, an upbeat honky-tonk exchange between a mortal and the grim reaper: “Oh Death, oh Death/ I was just getting dressed/ The place is a mess/ I was hoping you’d forget” is answered with “Oh yes, oh yes/ Death never rests!” “Falling Apart (Right Now)” is extra twangy, delving deep into the canyons; “Ambulance” flirts with delicate fingerpicking; “Please Be Wrong” has an early ’60s standard feel akin to Willie Nelson’s “Hello Walls.” There are lovely surprises, like the somber horns of “Darkness Is Cheap” (cribbing from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: “Darkness is cheap, and so Scrooge liked it.”) And the lightly racing “Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull” features word-play lyrics like the lullaby “Hush, Little Baby,” each line riffing off the previous: “When the sky began to roar like a lion at my door/ When my door began to crack it’s like a stick across my back/ When my back began to smart, was a pen knife in my heart.”

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Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 12, 2018 · Comments off

On its Nonesuch debut, Wilco delivers a thrillingly experimental work that scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene … simply a masterpiece.” As the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s “songs about love, America, apocalypse, and self-invention unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.”

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the Chicago-based group’s fourth studio album. It is Wilco’s best selling album, reaching number 13 on Billboard‘s top 200 chart in 2002. The album features drummer Glenn Kotche for the first time and is the last record to include multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jay Bennett. (more…)

Wilco – Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 17, 2017 · Comments off

Nonesuch Records released two new Wilco collections on November 17 in conjunction with the influential Chicago band’s 20th anniversary: Alpha Mike Foxtrot, a four-disc box-set of rare studio and live recordings collected from the band’s extensive audio archives, and What’s Your 20?, is a two-CD compilation of essential tracks culled from the band’s previously released studio recordings.

Both collections are produced by Grammy-nominated producer Cheryl Pawelski, co-founder of Omnivore Recordings, whose credits include Big Star’s Keep an Eye on the Sky, The Band’s A Musical History, and Townes Van Zandt’s Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos 1971–1972. These are the first compilations of Wilco music of any kind.

“Like a lot of fans, I had collected these straggling tracks over the past two decades of following Wilco’s every move,” Pawelski said. “Alpha Mike Foxtrot includes almost every unique, essential performance that appeared on soundtracks, tribute albums and B-sides—and there are probably a few surprises for even the sharpest collector. This set presents an alternate history of the band, kind of a sideways view, and ultimately, it’s a super-fun listening experience.”

Alpha Mike Foxtrot features 64 pages of liner notes that include track-by-track recollections from Tweedy, notes by band members Nels Cline and John Stirratt, and reflections from members of Wilco’s extended professional family. The booklet also showcases dozens of archival and never-before-seen photos from a wide array of photographers chronicling all phases of the band’s career.

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Wilco – Star Wars (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44.1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 21, 2015 · Comments off

Wilco – Star Wars (2015)

FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1 kHz | Time – 33:51 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ dBPM Records / Anti-/Epitaph

The Chicago band Wilco has digitally released a new album, Star Wars, through its own dBpm Records. The album was made available after Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy revealed news of its existence during a live interview with Pitchfork at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Star Wars is the Grammy-award winning band’s ninth studio album and its first since 2011’s The Whole Love. (more…)