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Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47168 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
tragabigzanda wrote:
They're doing their black friday sale on the Wilco store. I was able to nab Wilco (The Album), Cruel Country, and the second Loose Fur record all for $65.
Man, the WTA album is pretty compressed on vinyl. Bummer they tried to cram it on a single LP; the songs go almost to the spindle on both sides. The tape distortion is super audible. Not quite as bad as something like Californication, but headed in that direction...
Cruel Country sounds fantastic, and the Loose Fur record sounds about as good as it ever will (it's a fairly low brow mix, which is part of the charm).
3. Le Bon is apparently “skeptical of sentiment” in songs, and would push Jeff to not try to sell the listener on any sort of emotion.
I am really enjoying the vibe of of “Sunlight Ends” and “A Bowl and a Pudding,” and am loving “Meant to Be” — this is probably the one song on here where it feels like the songwriting is on equal footing with the production. Other than that, unfortunately “no emotion” feels like a pretty apt characterization of how I felt listening to this. I’m not familiar with Cate le Bon but reading the above makes me think that she probably espouses some artistic philosophies that I just don’t identify with.
One thing I don’t care for on seemingly all recent Wilco records is the drum sound — it feels so papery and stiff. Is this an aesthetic choice or is it something inherent to Kotche’s playing style?
This was a misleading first impression. I’ve been listening to this the past couple days (got a physical copy for Christmas), and I am finding myself completely sucked into it — as a collection of soundscapes at first, but they turn out to be soundscapes that mature, emotionally sophisticated songs slowly but surely blossom out of. This was more or less my experience with Ode to Joy too so I should really just learn to trust the process with these guys.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47168 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Kevin Davis wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
3. Le Bon is apparently “skeptical of sentiment” in songs, and would push Jeff to not try to sell the listener on any sort of emotion.
I am really enjoying the vibe of of “Sunlight Ends” and “A Bowl and a Pudding,” and am loving “Meant to Be” — this is probably the one song on here where it feels like the songwriting is on equal footing with the production. Other than that, unfortunately “no emotion” feels like a pretty apt characterization of how I felt listening to this. I’m not familiar with Cate le Bon but reading the above makes me think that she probably espouses some artistic philosophies that I just don’t identify with.
One thing I don’t care for on seemingly all recent Wilco records is the drum sound — it feels so papery and stiff. Is this an aesthetic choice or is it something inherent to Kotche’s playing style?
This was a misleading first impression. I’ve been listening to this the past couple days (got a physical copy for Christmas), and I am finding myself completely sucked into it — as a collection of soundscapes at first, but they turn out to be soundscapes that mature, emotionally sophisticated songs slowly but surely blossom out of. This was more or less my experience with Ode to Joy too so I should really just learn to trust the process with these guys.
Interesting. I still love this album, and agree that like OTJ it's revealed itself with more listening...But it -- and here I mean primarily Jeff's singing, but also some other performative elements -- continues to feel executed at arm's reach, sharing some similarities with Le Bon's own work, The Feelies, Talking Heads, Television, Velvet Underground, Radiohead, etc. in that the restraint of their delivery denotes a sort of emotional detachment.
I love this quality, and the aforementioned bands are some of my all-time favorites (minus Velvet Underground, yawn), but I'm not getting more comples emotion as time passes.
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