Author: WILCO

Format: CD

PartNumber: 9362-47282-2

Release Date: 05-03-1999

Details: Review Teeth is packed with poignant mid-tempo ballads that would've seemed right at home on a top 10 list in 1975. -- Entertainment Weekly With his knack for sing-along melodies, rocking arrangements and decidedly noncountry studio effects, [Jeff] Tweedy has strayed far from the fold, to winning effect. -- People Amazon.ca Brian Wilson would be proud; Phil Spector too, and maybe even John Lennon would have raised the ghost of a smile. For Summerteeth is an album that wears its influences openly, yet somehow contrives to make them all sound new-minted. While fellow Uncle Tupelo alumnus Jay Farrar continues to stake out the centre ground of the alt. country scene with Son Volt, Jeff Tweedy and his Wilco cohorts have moved into altogether more eclectic territory. Tweedy's touching lyrical vignettes have the whiff of 3am whisky and cigarettes about them--"The ashtray says / You were up all night"--the time of night when disturbing thoughts surface without warning (the anti-climax of "She's A Jar" turns the whole song on its head in one devastating line). As ever, the band are a chameleon bunch, alternately providing chugging wall-of-sound riffs or sparse, fractured instrumental commentaries, all the while retaining their authentic mid-west accent (even when the production casts them in the role of a mid-60s psychedelic outfit). Occasionally erratic, sometimes frustrating, Wilco have never sounded more focused. --Mark Walker

UPC: 093624728221

EAN: 0093624728221

Model: 2031153

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood