Album Rating: 4.0

Sort of. I’d say 4 of the 12 songs would come from Ghost.



I actually prefer Summerteeth to YHF by a lil bit too - Yankee is a tiny bit over-mythologised

Album Rating: 3.5

Summerteeth is amazing, too, yes.

cover art looks like the last yo la tengo and something tells me they have the same mood

I prefer Yankee overall but "Via Chicago" is one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time

On the topic of this album, I did not expect such a positive reception - will check ASAP, though I feel a bit weird doing so because I'd slowly been going chronologically through their discography from Being There onward and last left off at Sky Blue Sky

Album Rating: 4.5

This is a pretty darn decent first review I must say.

Album Rating: 4.5

Also just wanted to say that Quiet Amplifier is one of the best songs this band has ever made.

Album Rating: 5.0

Thanks for all the feedback (positive & constructive criticism) on my first review! I would like to add that after I posted this review, I had a day off of work and was able to sit with the vinyl all day. Ode to Joy feels simultaneously essential to 2019 while sounding outside of time. These type of albums don’t come often. From a sonic standpoint, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Music From Big Pink, and Pet Sounds come to mind. At once attached to a very particular time and place, but also existing outside of that limitation.

It's all about summerteeth and whole love

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is starting to lay down those roots, the 4 is secure, so the 4th placing is secure for me.



A less choppy listen than A Ghost is Born

Album Rating: 4.0

White Wooden Cross and Love is Everywhere might be my favourites

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

A less choppy listen than A Ghost is Born

Album Rating: 4.0

The last four songs on Ghost are a mess for me - a real car crash and not just because of that drone ‘experiment’



This really grew on me after the third listen.



Listened to The Whole Love and apart from the closer I wasn’t as into it as this one. Sky Blue I never really got into either. The self titled has a very average Side B and I only really like three or four songs.



This is very solid - I track rated and compared to those 3.5 Wilco albums and this is currently bossing it. If a couple of songs grow to be 5/5 then it’ll be confirmed - definitely 4th best Wilco for me. For now I’m pretty sure but Ghost was half an excellent album.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I can agree Ghost sags a bit in its second half, basically tracks 1-6 are 4.5 quality and 7-12 are 3.5. “Less Than You Think” I actually really like the song portion but the drone part is skippable - it doesn’t affect my overall judgment of the album. Tracks 7-9 then are where it sags because “Theologians” is a classic and “The Late Greats” is an excellent closer too.



Whole Love for me is a standard mid career 4/5 ten track Wilco album with two 5/5 epic bookends that bring the whole thing to an overall 4.5 - I think that middle ten tracks has a great variety of their pop/folk/rock/country oriented styles, Tweedy’s melodies are still great there; on their own they’d still be the best album Tweedy has made this decade.



I actually don’t think we disagree too much on this, I think it’ll land on a mid 3.5, it’s really the placement in the Wilco oeuvre we’re arguing on - I kind of tend to forget you’re not actually a huuuuuge Wilco fan, I mean the fact you’ve currently got this only one rating behind YHF and Summerteeth is nuts to me. For me they were a very formative band and remain top 5 of all time so obviously I’m a bit biased here.

You got me very interested as I love Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Can not afford another album right now so can only sample it.