Wilco

Chicago’s Wilco released the first single Falling Apart (Right Now) from their forthcoming album, Cruel Country, via dBpm Records, available May 27th.

Cruel Country arrives the same weekend at the band’s Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, MA, where the band will perform the album in its entirety for the first time. 

The two-disc exploratory work is almost entirely composed of live takes, with just a few overdubs. The entire band was in the room together, playing at The Loft in Chicago, unseparated by baffles. It’s a totally different way of making records that Wilco hasn’t used in years, most notably since Sky Blue Sky. 

“It’s a style of recording that forces a band to surrender control and learn to trust each other, along with each other’s imperfections, musical and otherwise.” says singer/guitarist Jeff Tweedy. “But when it’s working the way it’s supposed to, it feels like gathering around some wild collective instrument, one that requires six sets of hands to play.”

As the title implies, the album finds Wilco embracing the genre of country music. Tweedy stated “We’ve never been particularly comfortable with accepting that definition, the idea that I was making country music. But now, having been around the block a few times, we’re finding it exhilarating to free ourselves within the form, and embrace the simple limitation of calling the music we’re making country.” Go here for more information and upcoming tour dates.

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