#dbpm records

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Track of the day // Wilco - Evicted

From the album Cousin, out September 29th.

#new music #recommended #music #track of the day #cate le bon #wilco #cousin #evicted #dBpm Records #Youtube

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Wilco – Cruel Country (2022)

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#wilco #cruel country #2022 #2020s #audio #americana #folk #rock #usa #country rock #jeff tweedy #john stirratt #glenn kotche #nels cline #mikael jorgensen #pat sansone #dbpm records

[dustedmagazine]

Tim Clarke’s 2023: Ears on the Prize

1. Rozi Plain — Prize (Memphis Industries)

Even though it was released way back in January, Prize is such an understated album that it nearly slipped under my radar completely. It popped up on some mid-year lists, including that of Dusted’s Margaret Welsh. The initial hook for me is that Rozi Leyden plays bass in This is the Kit (see my #3), but I had no idea she wrote and released her own music. From initial listens I was utterly beguiled, the economy of the songwriting and the richly colorful arrangements drawing me into obsessive repeat listens. Prize is a supremely absorbing and gently uplifting album, and one that I’ve played and enjoyed more than any other this year. Its beauty and clarity gradually reveal subtle, intoxicating depths.

2. Jana Horn — The Window is the Dream (No Quarter)

If Prize dominated my listening in the second half of 2023, it was The Window is the Dream that took pride of place in the first half — and it was one of my picks in the Mid-Year Exchange. They’re similarly oblique and alluring albums, but Horn’s record is shot through with a shadowy disquiet that seems to evoke a love gone sour. The chemistry among Horn’s band, especially the standout turn from electric guitarist Jonathan Horne, is truly something to behold, and elevates this superficially simple album into another realm entirely.

3. This is the Kit — Careful of Your Keepers (Rough Trade)

Rozi Leyden has played a key role in not one but two of my favorite albums of the year. The second is This is the Kit’s Careful of Your Keepers, notably produced by Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys. Rhys shepherded the long-standing indie-folk band to create their best album to date, on which Kate Stables’ intimate songwriting is given a fresh, expansive dimension.

4. Wilco — Cousin (dBpm)

It was producer Cate Le Bon’s involvement in Wilco’s latest that piqued my interest, but thankfully Jeff Tweedy and co. have also brought their A-game on this one. Supposedly conceived pre-pandemic and then shelved, Cousin is a gloriously deep and emotionally engaging album from a band who have always seemed, to me, on the verge of creating something great, but never quite get over the line. With Le Bon’s help, Cousin takes a confident step beyond.

5. Pile — All Fiction (Exploding in Sound)

It’s taken for granted that Pile can dole out cathartic, noisy guitar records, but All Fiction feels different. Rick Maguire, Alex Molini and Kris Kuss maintain the electric dynamic they’ve always possessed, but shift their focus onto making the music between the crescendos more immersive and textural. It works brilliantly.

6. Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)

Furling was released so early in the year, and so much great music has been released since, that it’s easy to forget just how good it is. As noted in my Dusted review, “Baird’s voice is an instrument of rare beauty, simultaneously assured and elusive, like a soft-focus Sandy Denny wandering in a fever dream.” When you situate such a voice within some of Baird’s best songs to date and embellish them with sensitive playing by her partner, Charlie Saufley, you’ve got a record of enduring beauty.

7. Devendra Banhart — Flying Wig (Mexican Summer)

Flying Wig is the second album on this list to be produced by Cate Le Bon. Here, Le Bon’s aesthetic is writ large, from the melancholy drift of the synth arrangements to the heavily modulated saxophone parts. Through it all Banhart sounds acutely lonely, while also luxuriating in the beauty of his musical backing. It’s a heady vibe, that’s for sure.

8. King Krule — Space Heavy (XL)

There are few musicians who simultaneously come across as hopelessly spaced out and gutturally pissed off at the same time. Archy Marshall is one of them, and his latest album drifts even further into dislocation and bewilderment than 2020’s stellar Man Alive!

9. Arrowounds — In the Octopus Pond (Lost Tribe Sound)

No other album released this year has quite sounded like Arrowounds’ In the Octopus Pond. It’s a singular and immersive blend of ambient and post-rock that evokes exemplary reference points such as Bark Psychosis, Dif Juz, and The World On Higher Downs. And if you enjoy this, Ryan Chamberlain has released another three albums this year, each venturing in a different direction.

10. Cory Hanson — Western Cum (Drag City)

Wand’s Cory Hanson put out his excellent second album, Pale Horse Rider, in 2021. It features a little six-string extroversion here and there, but doesn’t quite prepare the listener for album number three. Western Cum is Hanson in full guitar-hero mode; his playing is absolutely blistering. Though nothing on the album quite surpasses early single “Housefly” for sheer wind-in-your-hair thrills, Western Cum is a supremely enjoyable rock record, built to be played loud.

Also excellent (in alphabetical order):

Activity — Spirit in the Room (Western Vinyl)

Daniel Bachman — When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed)

BCMC — Foreign Smokes (Drag City)

Califone — Villagers (Jealous Butcher)

James Ellis Ford — The Hum (Warp)

PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)

Tim Hecker — No Highs (Kranky)

Blake Mills — Jelly Road (New Deal / Verve Forecast)

The Necks — Travel (Northern Spy / Fish of Milk)

Andy Shauf — Norm (Anti-)

#dusted magazine #yearend 2023 #tim clarke #rozi plain #jana horn #this is the kit #wilco #pile #meg baird #devendra banhart #king krule #arrowounds #cory hanson

[swvlswvl]

My Favorite Albums of 2023

Previously: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

I haven't been posting here much lately. In fact, my last post was exactly a year ago, when I shared my last year-end list. You can always find my most recent writing over at my Rolling Stone author page, if you're looking for it. Anyway.... here are 30 albums I loved in 2023!

Boygenius, The Record (Interscope)

Blondshell, Blondshell (Partisan)

Model/Actriz, Dogsbody (True Panther)

McKinley Dixon, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (City Slang)

El Michels Affair & Black Thought, Glorious Game (Big Crown)

Wilco, Cousin (dBPM)

Annie Blackman, Bug EP (Father/Daughter)

Mitski, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)

Tainy, Data (Neon16)

NewJeans, Get Up EP (ADOR)

billy woods & Kenny Segal, Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)

U.S. Girls, Bless This Mess (4AD)

Olivia Rodrigo, Guts (Geffen)

Blur, The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone)

Debby Friday, Good Luck (Sub Pop)

Hello Mary, Hello Mary (Frenchkiss)

Belle and Sebastian, Late Developers (Matador)

Anohni and the Johnsons, My Back Was a Bridge for You To Cross (Secretly Canadian)

Bonny Doon, Let There Be Music (ANTI-)

The Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds (Polydor)

Water From Your Eyes, Everyone's Crushed (Matador)

Katie Von Schleicher, A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night (Sipsman)

Victoria Monet, Jaguar II (Lovett/RCA)

Patio, Collection (Fire Talk)

Lil Yachty, Let's Start Here (Quality Control/Motown)

Bar Italia, The Twits / Tracey Denim (Matador)

Allegra Krieger, I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane (Double Double Whammy)

Sen Morimoto, Diagnosis (City Slang)

Palehound, Eye on the Bat (Polyvinyl)

Bully, Lucky for You (Sub Pop)

#year in music #best albums of 2023 #music #Boygenius #Blondshell #Mitski

[radiomaxmusic]

Thursday, October 5, 2023 6pm ET: Feature LP: Wilco - Cousin (2023)

Cousin is the thirteenth studio album from American indie rock band Wilco, released on September 29, 2023 through dBpm Records. The album was produced by Cate Le Bon, representing the first time the band used an outside producer in over a decade since 2009’s Wilco (The Album), and was preceded by two singles: “Evicted” and the title track. The album has received positive reviews from…

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#2023 #Feature LP #RadioMax #Wikipedia #Wilco

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: Wilco The Whole Love

If you're going to start your own record label, you better start with a really good album, and Wilco did just that with 2011's The Whole Love. The first release from Jeff Tweedy's dBPM imprint, The Whole Love blends the adventure of their post-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot work with some superb pop songwriting and the confident chops of a band working together brilliantly, and the result is one of the very best albums in their catalog. - Mark Deming

#allmusic staff picks #wilco

[lastchancevillagegreen]

Saturday, 11 February 2023:

Cruel Country Wilco (dBpm) (2023 vinyl release of 2022 album)

Those backed up pressing plants resulted in Wilco releasing their newest album on download first on 27 May 2022.  Then came the Special Edition CD for Record Store Day on 18 June, 2022, essentially a promo CD, but just the same, the first physical release this album could sustain.  After much delay, it finally was released on vinyl on 20 January 2023.

I was interested in hearing this because it was ballyhooed as Wilco’s country album.  I guess 1996′s Being There didn’t count as country back then.  Anyhow, the point is this album finally came out on vinyl and I’ll bet the boards of the Hoffman Music Forum were ecstatic as many were clamoring for this particular release. 

Above you see the album cover, the gatefold and the back of the cover.  I was hoping this album cover, which I thought was so sharp, would be textured.  Then my brother posited that this cover and gatefold were probably computer generated and suddenly I was bummed because I hadn’t considered that very probably likelihood and suddenly this album cover wasn’t nearly as spectacular as I believed.  Back in the day it would have been hand made. 

The package is still nice.  There are custom inner sleeves and you can see all four of them directly below.

Wilco is one beloved band, that’s for certain.  Check out the hype sticker and ask when did they become America’s Greatest Band? 

As you can see on the hype, this album is a double and the first album is pressed on red vinyl and the second album is on white vinyl.  When I went into Exile in Champaign this afternoon, all that were on the stage where new releases are located was the black vinyl version.  I definitely wanted the color version as I mistakenly thought only that version had the postcards.  Once I found the red and white vinyl version in the bins I was able to distinguish that both had the postcards.  On the backs of each postcard are the lyrics of each song.  Below you will be able to see the colored vinyl followed by the front and backs of the postcards. 

And here are the fronts and backs of the postcards.  This is taken from a distance because of the overhead light.  Had this been in the middle of the day with sunlight available there would not have been a light reflecting on it.  But here is the front of the postcards. 

Keep in mind these postcards are as big as that Marvin Gaye poster in What’s Going On which I posted on 7 February.  This is four album covers placed in a square.  Below are the backs of the postcards. 

Lastly come the four labels for the entire album. 

[sonmelier]

78. Wilco | Cruel Country

🇺🇸 Etats-Unis | dBpm Records | 77 minutes | 21 morceaux 

Un double album de country rock sans prétention (les ambitions défricheuses de Wilco ne sont pas de sortie cette fois-ci) mais diablement agréable à écouter. Une succession ininterrompue de belles chansons toutes simples, un savoureux flux de tranquillité.

#sonmelier2022 #alt-country #americana #folk rock

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19 January 2023: Cruel Country, Wilco. (2023 vinyl issue of 2022 dBpm release)

Wilco has a chequered history with me; when Belleville, Illinois, group Uncle Tupelo split up and its leaders created two new bands, I declared that it would be Jay Farrar’s Son Volt that would get the crown of greatness and not Jeff Tweedy’s Wilco. Though that first Son Volt album (Trace, 1995) was fantastic, this prediction could not have been more wrong. I saw Wilco perform in 1995 in one of their earliest gigs, and that was all I needed to see. I let quite a long time go by before I bothered taking them seriously. My brother became a huge fan based on their second album Being There (1996) and its followup Summerteeth (1999), putting both on his list of greatest albums of the decade, and only then did I give in. I went backward, got those albums, and then moving forward I declared the band’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004) the best albums of their respective years. From there it became a slippery slope of disinterest and irritation with a string of Wilco albums that I found dull at best. My brother got so disinterested in them that he gave me his copy of their 2012 album The Whole Love, which I hadn’t bothered buying. My Wilco interest got piqued yet again by that album, and I’ve carried on acquiring all subsequent Wilco releases to the present day, including large, deluxe reissues of the band’s first few albums (well, the reissue of their ’95 debut A.M. is a single disc with bonus tracks, but the next three have received super-deluxe editions). I’ve also kept faithful to buying Jeff Tweedy’s solo releases, at least up until the point of his 2021 concert set Live is the King, which I refused to buy because its parent album, the studio set Love is the King, is so colossally boring that I’ve concluded Tweedy really needs an editor or someone around him who doesn’t act as if every move he makes is the work of a genius. Tweedy is no Prince, but he’s a bit higher up the food chain than Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices, but all three musicians managed to reach a point where they seemingly operate(d) in an echo chamber of acclaim. I could go on, but let me conclude this editorial by saying that Wilco’s new album Cruel Country is every bit as dull as Love is the King. In the old days, I would have just stopped buying their stuff the moment I caught wind of this one’s boringness, but at this stage I sometimes carry on with a musician much longer than I need to. And not only did I find this album boring when I played the double-vinyl set you see pictured here, I knew going into it that I thought it was boring, for last year I bought the ridiculous “Pre-Release Limited Edition” double CD of Cruel Country when the band rushed it out for a Record Store Day event. If you read my post about that purchase, you’ll see that was I irritated even then, swore I wouldn’t re-buy the album when it came out with proper artwork, and then admitted I knew I would be doing it anyway. I have only myself to blame. I do like the album marginally better than when I heard it last year, but I’m really struggling to give it the requisite minimum of spins that I give every one of my music purchases, even duplicates. I need to hear it one more time and then I can file it forever if I so choose. Will I buy Wilco’s next album? Let’s not talk about that now.

Above are the front and back covers. I will say that the artwork on this release is ornate. The lace doily motif you see on the front cover continues with the opened gatefold that you see below. The song titles are “stitched” in there, but it’s fairly illegible even when you’re holding the album right in front of you. (I put stitched in quotation marks because I’m confident this is computer art, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe some maniac really did stitch this giant doily.)

Placed in the middle of the gatefold, but not attached, is a large, fold-up set of perforated postcards. These postcards, on their obverse, contain lyrics and credits. Below I have shots of the set, first the both sides of the unfolded cards, and then various shots of them being unfolded. I’m sure numerous fans take this as a nod to the ’90s mailing list Postcard from Hell, which started as an Uncle Tupelo list and then evolved to be a Wilco/Son Volt hangout. The list was named for Uncle Tupelo’s 1991 song “Postcard.” I know tons of fans who are constantly talking about the glory days of the list.  And good lord; unlike most listservs from all those days ago, this one seems to still be active:   https://www.postcardfromhell.com/

Below are both sides of LP one’s inner sleeve. Some of those poses feel a little corny to me.

Next are both sides of LP two’s inner sleeve.

Next are both sides of LP one, followed by a shot of the opaque red vinyl.

Next, the same for the opaque white LP two.

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Playlist (15): Great Big Hoping Machine (Radio Plastique), July 10 2022

ARTIST / SONG / ALBUM / LABEL

Noah Zacharin "Morning Comes On" A Startle of Wings (self-released)

Lucy Kaplansky "Gold Watch and Chain" Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)

Jake Blount "Didn't It Rain" The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)

Hilary Hawke "Lilygild" Lilygild (Pickin' Chicken)

Mary Gauthier "Truckers and Troubadours" Dark Enough to See the Stars (In the Black / Thirty Tigers)

Wilco "Hints"  Cruel Country  (dBpm)

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder "What a Beautiful City" Get on Board (Nonesuch)

Cheryl Cawood "Makin Corn Liquor" Bullet in the Cabin Wall (Bobbitt)

Angel Olsen "Greenville" (single) (Amazon Original)

Noah Reid "Everyday" Adjustments (Baseline Music)

Neil Young "Powderfinger" Hitchhiker (Reprise)

Corrie Lynn Green "Angel's Teeth" Blow Away (3706809 Records DK)

Steve Earle "Galway Girl" Transcendental Blues (Warner)

Julian Taylor "Seeds"  Beyond the Reservoir (Howling Turtle)

Watkins Family Hour "Blowin' Down This Road" Home In This World: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads (New Elektra)

#playlist #radio #americana #folk #roots

[greensparty]

Album Review: Wilco “Cruel Country”

In 2019, I was lucky enough to review Wilco’s album Ode to Joy. It was a serious return to form for the band. Their best since 2002! I discovered them around the time their 1997 hit “Outtasite (outta mind)” got played on MTV2. In 2002, a relative burned me a copy of their phenomenal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and I’ve listened to that countless times, especially in the 00s. The band’s 2004 album A Ghost is Born is one I listened to a ton in the Summer of 2004. In 2008, I saw Wilco open for Neil Young at Madison Square Garden. Singer/leader Jeff Tweedy even brought out his son Spencer to play drums during a song! After I named Ode to Joy my #2 Album of 2019, I actually picked up several of their earlier albums when I’ve been record-store shopping. Since the last album, leader Jeff Tweedy has been keeping busy with the score to Alex Winter’s Showbiz Kids and his solo album Love is the King. But I was out and out thrilled at the news that Wilco’s newest album is a double album Cruel Country, dropping today from dBpm.

album cover

The new album is a double album. A whopping 21 songs. It reminds me a lot of their 1996 double album Being There. The band recorded this live in the studio at The Loft, their Chicago recording studio. It marks the first time all six members of Wilco have recorded live in the studio at the same time since Sky Blue Sky, which was released in 2007. Much has also been made of the fact that this is Wilco delving deep into country music. They have always been known as an alt-country band and country elements have always been a part of their music, so its not some big stretch. This album is the group truly at the top of their game. It’s going to take a lot more listens for me to see where it fits in Wilco’s disography. Ode to Joy is a tough act to follow, but boy does this rise to that challenge. 

Wilco in 2022

For info on Cruel Country: https://wilcostore.com/products/cruel-country-digital-download

4.5 out of 5 stars

#wilco #album review #jeff tweedy #music nerd

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Wilco - Tired of Taking It Out On You (Cruel Country, 2022)

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#wilco #video #audio #usa #americana #rock #folk #dbpm records #jeff tweedy #patrick sansone #john stirratt #nels cline #glenn kotche #mikael jorgensen #tired of taking it out on you #cruel country #bob ludwig #tom schick #Mark Greenberg

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Wallis Bird: Hands (Mount Silver /Virgin „I’ll Never Hide My Love Away“, singt Wallis Bird auf ihrem siebten Studioalbum „Hands“ – fast als wäre es eine Replik auf den ähnlich betitelten Beatles-Song „You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away“. Neben ihrem starken Statement für die Liebe zu ihrer Frau arbeitet sich die in Neukölln lebende Irin (zu deren Fans U2 und Amanda Palmer zählen) aber auch am eigenen politischen Erwachen (von 9/11 bis zur Ehe für alle) ab – und an ihrem Lossagen vom Filmriss-Drogen-Exzess. Klanglich bewegt sich Wallis Bird zwischen groovy gitarrengetragenem Shania-Twain-Gesang und 80s-poppigeren Songs mit melancholischen Synthie-Flächen und nach vorne preschenden Beats. Stefan Hochgesand, Tip Magazin [embedded content] Liam Gallagher: C’mon You Know (Warner) Nach zunächst orientierungslosen Post-Oasis-Jahren im Schatten von Bruder Noel hat sich der jüngere Gallagher ein Team aufgebaut, das ihm auch auf dem dritten Soloalbum grundsolide Songs auf den Leib schneidert, die klingen wie Coverversionen aus der goldenen Ära der Rockmusik. Hauptanforderung: Die Lieder dürfen nicht beim Bierholen stören, wenn Liam sie live zwischen den Oasis-Klassikern singt. Beeindruckend indes die Innbrunst, mit der er diesen CDU-Rock für nostalgieselige Oasis-Jünger vorträgt. Torsten Groß, Moderator [embedded content] Porridge Radio: Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (Secretly Canadian) Nur weil man etwas oft wiederholt, wird es davon nicht wahrer. Das weiß Dana Margoline, Sängerin der Brightoner Band Porridge Radio, sicher bereits selbst: Auf ihrem dritten Album singt sie 57-mal den Satz „I don’t want to be loved“, der natürlich eine Lüge ist. Leider wird auch nicht alles durch Wiederholung besser und so kann das fast endlos repetitive, immer kurz vorm Heulen stehende Schrei-Singen Margolines mitunter ganz schön nerven. Das macht das Album nicht zu einem Flop. Doch während Porridge Radio mit ihrer gefeierten Vorgängerplatte große Songs im schrammeligen, synthielastigen DIY-Sound gelangen, sind es auf „Waterslide“ eher die leisen Stücke, die man lauter spielen sollte. Jana Weiss, Tagesspiegel [embedded content] Wilco: Cruel Country: (dBpm Records/ADA) Wilco gingen Mitte der Neunziger aus den Trümmern der Alternative-Country-Pioniere Uncle Tupelo hervor. Nach vielen Umbesetzungen und zahlreichen Abschweifungen in Pop, Heartland Rock, Folk, Krautrock, Elektronik und Psychedelia haben sie nun ein Country-(Doppel-)Album aufgenommen. Ist das eine Rückkehr zu den Wurzeln? Es klingt nicht so. Denn „Cruel Country“ ist keine rustikale Anverwandlung, sondern ein virtuoses Spiel mit den Formen und Bildern der Country-Musik, das sich kritisch mit dem Land beschäftigt, das diese Musik einst hervorgebracht hat.  Maik Brüggemeyer, Rolling Stone

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Listen to Wilco's bittersweet new song, "Tired Of Taking It Out On You"

Listen to Wilco’s bittersweet new song, “Tired Of Taking It Out On You”

Wilco have shared a new song – listen “Tired of picking on you” below. It’s taken from the band’s upcoming new double-disc album, cruel countrywhich will be released next month. The band’s 12th studio album is set to arrive May 27 via dBpm Records. It’s the same weekend as their Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where the band will perform the new record for the first time. Speaking of the…

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Wilco and Sleater-Kinney— Forest Hills Stadium — August 21, 2021

Not even the rain could prevent coheadliners Wilco and Sleater-Kinney from teaming up onstage and treating the patient Forest Hills Stadium crowd to a special night of music on Friday. Photos courtesy of Adela Loconte | www.adelaloconte.com

#Adela Loconte #Bill Athens #Carrie Brownstein #Corin Tucker #dBpm Records #Fabi Reyna #Forest Hills #Forest Hills Stadium #Galen Clark #Glenn Kotche #Jeff Tweedy #John Stirratt #Live Music #Mikael Jorgensen #Mom + Pop Music #Music #Nels Cline #New York City #Ode to Joy #Pat Sansone #Path of Wellness #Photos #Queens #Sleater-Kinney #Vincent Lirocchi #Wilco

[musicollage]

Wilco. Ode To Joy, 2019. dBpm.

#rock music #folk rock #wilco #dbpm records #2019 #2010s #2010s rock