Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco

• 1 I am trying to break your heart 06:58
• 2 Kamera 03:30
• 3 Radio cure 05:09
• 4 War on war 03:49
• 5 Jesus, etc. 03:52
• 6 Ashes of American Flags 04:44
• 7 Heavy metal drummer 03:09
• 8 I'm the man who loves you 03:56
• 9 Pot kettle black 04:01
• 10 Poor places 05:18
• 11 Reservations 07:24
• Total Runtime 51:50

Info for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

When pioneering alt-country band Uncle Tupelo split in the mid-1990s, they broke off into two camps. Jay Farrar started the rootsy, twangy (if lyrically elliptical) Son Volt. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeff Tweedy, who co-led the band with Farrar, established himself anew with Wilco.

Though Wilco initially offered country-influenced rock not unlike that of Tweedy's former outfit, they quickly progressed through the Stones-meet-Big Star shambling two-disc epic „Being There“, the Beach Boys/Beatles-influenced pop of „Summer Teeth“, and the screwy, art-damaged, Jim O'Rourke-produced „Yankee Hotel Foxtrot“, whose release was notoriously delayed due to label apathy, though the album was eventually hailed as the group's masterpiece.

„Named in honor of the three-word codes used by short-wave radio operators, Wilco's fourth album sounds like a late-night broadcast of some weirdly wonderful pop station punctuated by static and the sonic bleed of competing signals. Songs that begin with simple, elegiac grace--'Ashes of American Flags' and 'Poor Places'--end in a cathartic squall of distortion. The results can be initially jarring, but it's these tracks more than the sturdy jangle pop of 'Kamera' or 'Heavy Metal Drummer' that demand, and reward, repeated listens. Mixed by studio experimentalist Jim O'Rourke and produced by the band, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot harkens back to a time when the words 'pop' and 'sonic adventurism' weren't mutually exclusive. The Beatles and Kurt Cobain knew this, and clearly so do Jeff Tweedy and company.“ (Keith Moerer)

'It's Tweedy's growth as a lyricist that's most arreting....Tweedy alternates subtle and startling twists of phrase to paint pictures of intense longing, wistful nostalgia, moments of pure joy and utter despair.' (Paste Magazine)

Jeff Tweedy, vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, programming, harmonica
Jay Bennett, programming, guitars, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, organ, bass, drums, vocals
John Stirratt, bass, vocals
Leroy Bach, piano, acoustic and electric guitar, organ, glockenspiel, vibraphone, bass, percussion
Glenn Kotche, drums, percussion, cimbalom, siren, chimes

Additional musicians:
Ken Coomer, additional drums and percussion
Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello
Craig Christiansen, programming, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, autoharp, harmonium
Jessy Greene, violin, viola
Jim O'Rourke, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, toy piano, stylophone

Recorded at The Loft, CRC, and Soma E.M.S., Chicago, Illinois
Engineered by Chris Buckley, Chris Brickley, Jay Bennett, Jim O'Rourke
Mixed by Jim O’Rourke at Soma E.M.S.
Mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road Studios, London
Produced by Wilco

Digitally remastered

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