Wilco return with their seventh album, the almost-eponymous Wilco (The Album) this week. Now seven years removed from their 2002 breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy and crew obliterate all the experimental vestiges from that disc for an album that finds the band channeling George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Kraftwerk. “Wilco’s seventh studio album is a triumph of determined simplicity by a band that has been running from the obvious for most of this decade,” Rolling Stone’s David Fricke says in his four-star review. Highlights include “I’ll Fight” (a hit if Top 40 recognized rock music) and the krautrock-tempered murder fantasy “Bull Black Nova.”
Also out is Cradlesong, the newest solo album by Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas. Now we know what you’re thinking, “Rob Thomas, give me a break,” but RS‘ Jody Rosen really liked this album, giving Thomas’ second solo album four stars and calling the “Smooth” singer the last great pop-rock singer and the possible heir to Phil Collins. “Now he’s older and more easeful, less rock and more pop — but no less adept at the big money-shot chorus. The results are infectious,” Rosen writes in his review.
Moby also takes a time out from the dance floor to soundtrack the chill-out lounge with his new ambient-influenced album Wait For Me. As Will Hermes writes in his three-and-a-half star review of Moby’s latest, “Moby has always had a thing for the blues. His unlikely 1999 megahit, Play, used them literally, grafting ancient samples into inviting electronic grooves. His latest uses them spiritually, giving his melancholy streak room to brood and blossom.” Among the standouts are “Pale Horses” and the instrumental “Shot in the Back of the Head,” which as Rock Daily previously reported featured a video directed by David Lynch.
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