Wilco / Sky Blue Sky – CD (Used)

Description

Author: Wilco

Format: Enhanced

PartNumber: 4 3 00079987

Release Date: 15-05-2007

Details: Amazon.caAfter their wild experimental streak of the past decade, Wilco’s sixth studio album might feel like a bit of a comedown. Sky Blue Sky is mellow, moody, and uncharacteristically monotone, opening with a pleasant jangle and Jeff Tweedy singing a simple song: « Maybe the sun will shine today, the clouds will blow away. » He doesn’t even follow it up with a barbed punchline. Could it be that the restless Chicago band has settled back into its gentle Americana roots–or does this sudden mid-career reappraisal represent Wilco’s gutsiest move yet? Mostly written in the studio by the full band, it’s certainly the group’s most cohesive album in ages, presenting a dense song cycle padded with intricate guitar work, brushed rhythms, and ’70s soft-rock accents. In places it sounds like Wings (« Hate It Here »), in others Harry Nilsson (« Walken »), and in the middle it goes a bit Grateful Dead (« Shake It Off »). At the same time, there’s a distinct sense of hearing a band finally at ease in its own skin. Sky Blue Sky represents the sound of Wilco finally pulling through its petulant adolescence. –Aidin VaziriProduct DescriptionSKY BLUE SKY is as eloquently straightforward as Wilco’s last studio recording, the Grammy-winning a GHOST IS BORN, was daringly experimental. Tweedy’s lyrics deal forthrightly with romantic separation and reconciliation, their bittersweet quality giving way, as the album progresses, to a more uplifting, redemptive mood. Tweedy quite literally banishes the darkness on the penultimate track, the inspiring, gospel-tinged « What Light » – the album’s first single – and concludes with a deeply affecting, till-death-do-us-part lullaby, « On and on and On ».

UPC: 075597998795

EAN: 0075597998795

Model: 2014514

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood