★★★★★
After the difficult birth of 2004?s A Ghost Is Born, a record that asserted its independence from tonality with a 15-minute noise collage, Sky Blue Sky is a far more amiable, easy going affair. In fact, it's the first Wilco album since Being There that seems to be in a reasonably good mood. The first song, "Either Way," is a surprise right out of the gate. It's as lyrically straightforward as can be...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
"The blues is a chair," John Lennon once told Rolling Stone. "Not a design for a chair, or a better chair... it is the first chair. It is a chair for sitting on, not for looking at or being appreciated. You sit on that music." The music and legacy of Woody Guthrie is another kind of chair...
- www.avclub.com
2012-04-19
★★★★★
Sound: Finally, a concert album was delivered by Wilco, demonstrating the presence and gorgeous orchestration of the band. Wilco's known for how well the recreate their studio sound onstage, with the same complexity, effects, etc. The mix of mellow and high energy songs are all complemented by the inimitable playing of Nels Cline, an indie jazz guitarist. The band is incredibly tight and together, feeling eachothers dynamics very well...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Wilco's sound on this album is mixture of old and new. The sound of the first two tracks hearkens back to older musical textures. The organ playing on the first track reminded me of The Band. While part of the album seems very mature and relaxed compared to previous releases, the addition of Nels Cline definitely brings a progressive sort of edge to the album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Release Date: April 23, 2002 After seeing Wilco last night, I felt obliged to write about the album that not only introduced me to the band, but really changed my whole outlook on music. I can't even begin to say what this record did for my musical tastes, or how this band has changed so much of what I believe to be relevant in the music world today. I went into my first year of college with a pretty narrow scope of music in general...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-02-02
★★★★★
This live in-studio set remakes highlights from 2011's excellent The Whole Love, a homespun survey of Wilco's avant-garage skill set. Changes are subtle - guitar noise is rearranged on "Dawned on Me," strings are dialed back on"Black Moon" - and sometimes barely discernible. More illuminating are the revisions of two older songs. Ten years and two long wars later, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's "War on War" is more grizzled, with guitar convulsions trumping synth convulsions, and A.M...
- www.rollingstone.com
2012-02-02
★★★★★
dBpm The message, promise and joyous surprise of Wilco's The Whole Love all unfold within the first minute of the album-opener "Art of Almost." An expectant, off-accented beat recalls the 5/4 drum kickoff of Radiohead's In Rainbows. Stray krautrock ambience opens up some space and an orchestra swells imperceptibly until it floods over the entire grooving band. When it clears, Jeff Tweedy's voice floats in over a dial-up modem bleep and Wilco snaps to work...
- www.relix.com
2011-12-01
★★★★★
As radio-friendly album openers go, 'Art Of Almost', which kicks off Chicago stalwarts Wilco"s eighth studio effort, would probably rate pretty low on the Fearne Cotton-approved Indie That Won"t Confuse Your Mum Index. While the album makes for an extended pitch into the inner realms of orchestral gravel groove, freak fuzz and krautrock, frontman Jeff Tweedy and lead guitarist Nels Cline"s swim through such possibly perilous experimental waters still manages to be decidedly melodic...
- www.nme.com
2011-10-24
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