Well, this was quite a surprise! I wasn\u2019t really expecting much from Jeff Tweedy\u2019s solo career after the excess that was Sukierae,<\/i> but this was quite the opposite: a very stripped-down record with just Jeff and his drummer son Spencer making a laidback, alterna-folk disc that ends up as one of the strongest of the year. Opening track \u201cBombs Above\u201d is as laidback as one can imagine, but it works really well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome Birds\u201d feels like a country rock from about 1976, but it\u2019s a really good one that you want to hear over and over again. Not everything is a winner, though. \u201cLet\u2019s Go Rain\u201d is too upbeat and poppy while \u201cDon\u2019t Forget\u201d sounds like a full-on Wilco song — which is not what a lot of people are coming to this disc for. \u201cI Know What It\u2019s Like\u201d is another track for Wilco diehards. For the uninitiated, it\u2019s just okay. For the most relaxed music of the year, check out \u201cHow Hard It Is For A Desert To Die;\u201d it will get you feeling very chill in no time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Red Brick\u201d is another great song that to some might have felt like an outtake, but to other ears, it\u2019s pretty good and really shows the dynamism between father and son in the studio. The album\u2019s six minute finale \u201cHow Will I Find You?\u201d is one of the most interesting tracks of the year. A slow burner of a folk song, Tweedy manages to extract every bit of emotion out of the music and lyrics and turns it into what could be one of the best songs he\u2019s ever written. <\/p>\n
All in all, this was a late arrival for a list of the best records of the year, yet it\u2019s definitely earned its spot with its remarkable songwriting and musicianship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10291],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45499","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jeff-tweedy","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45499"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}