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Wilco Get Experimental On June Album: Update Plus Early Track List

3/27/09, 4:43 pm EST

Photo: Jeff Sciortino

In Rolling Stone’s Spring Album Preview, Jeff Tweedy says Wilco’s country-tinged album, due in June, is their best yet. “We wanted to go in there with more of an eye for sculpting something sonically,” he says. The group also confirmed that the album’s closing track, “You and I,” will feature Canadian songstress Feist on vocals.

Today Wilco took to their official Website to tell fans they’ve spent the past few weeks in Valencia, California, mixing the disc. The band adds, “Here’s a list of song titles spied on the reels — note this is not necessarily complete and not in sequence:”

“Deeper Down”
“Conscript (aka I’ll Fight)”
“One Wing”
“Solitaire”
“Wilco (the song)”
“Country Disappeared”
“Everlasting”
“Bull Black Nova”
“Sonny Feeling”
“You and I”

You read that right. As of right now, there is a song called “Wilco (the song)” on the album. How “Bad Company” of them. As we reported in the Spring Album preview, the theme song of sorts contains the chorus “Wilco will love you.” The album’s experimentation is anchored once again by Tweedy’s sly, insightful and often heartbreaking lyrics. “Deeper Down” opens with “By the end of the bout, he was punched out, fists capsized, muscles shouting,” while “My Country Disappeared” explores America’s “crushed cities,” concluding “There’s nothing left here.” For much more on the upcoming Wilco album, and 45 more of the biggest releases on the way, check out our Spring Music Preview:

Spring Music Preview: Inside 45 of the Year’s Biggest Albums


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LASnark.com | 3/27/2009, 4:53 pm EST

Who let the pretty guy grow a beard?

Wilco’s been playing Wilco(The Song) on the road for a couple years now.

Zombie | 3/28/2009, 2:37 am EST

Wilco performed “Wilco (the song)” a few months back on the Colbert Report, also.
And “Sonny Feeling” and “One Wing” have been a part of their live set for almost as long, over a year at least.

At the shows I’ve been to the new songs seemed like they would have been right at home on either “Being There” or “Sky Blue Sky.” I’m really looking forward to June!

More rockn' | 3/28/2009, 12:15 pm EST

I liked Sky Blue Sky but I want something more rockn’ like Summerteeth or GIB!

Charles Primm | 3/29/2009, 11:03 am EST

I hope it’s reminiscent of their very first (and best album).

Roger | 3/29/2009, 7:06 pm EST

A.M.? Their best? No way. The Wilco catalogue is jsut the Radiohead catalogue: You can’t choose a favorite from The Bends to In Rainbows or Being There to Sky Blue Sky…but Pablo Honey and A.M. are definitely ranked last.

Roger | 3/29/2009, 7:07 pm EST

*just like

Pagoda | 3/30/2009, 2:06 am EST

Roger is right, Charles.

AM is easily the worst album in the Wilco catalog. It’s enjoyable at times, but artistically, musically, and lyrically it’s inferior to every subsequent album. Most of the hardcore AM fans are the old Tupelo heads or No Depression alt-country fanatics who never forgave them for outgrowing their roots.

It frustrates the hell out of me when fans of AM argue that Summerteeth is sacrilege.

Teek | 3/30/2009, 12:04 pm EST

I’m with Charles – I love AM. YHF and AGIB are among the most over-rated discs of the last 20 years. But Summerteeth is probably Wilco’s best.

KilgoreTrout XL | 3/30/2009, 1:45 pm EST

Uh, it’s either Being There or Sky Blue Sky. Summerteeth is damned good, and there’s a lot of stuff I really like on YFH.

But it sure as hell is NOT A.M.

Whoa. Just had to put that out there.

jamie | 4/15/2009, 12:04 pm EST

what’s this GIB!!!

Pd | 5/14/2009, 3:10 pm EST

That doesn’t look like Pat Sansone. Who is that?

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