Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
"After years of foregoing recorded music for other pursuits, Jim O'Rourke makes a brilliant return with a subtly complex 38-minute piece of orchestral pop. [Grayson Currin]"
8 / 10
There's love, there's the war on terror, and for Wilco, both are a battlefield. 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' sees the former country rockers streamlining their sound down to a painful bareness, and telling us how they hurt.
And, ouch, fingernails down the blackboard, it works brilliantly. In the songs of ex-Uncle Tupelo man Jeff Tweedy tall buildings shake, light is obscured behind the veil of tears, while Jim O'Rourke, the Zelig of alternative music, is on hand to pour sonic salt in the wounds.
Really, it's just as well. 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart' liberally casts desolation from track one, and in spite of the 'White Album' joy 'I'm The Man Who Loves You' and a couple of Pavement-y frolics, it's a gripping darkness that doesn't often lift. It's hard going, but it's worth it, and that is undoubtedly their point.
John Robinson
9.7
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External Reviews of Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Pitchfork: Album Reviews: J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom
"The newest Fleet Foxes member has been crafting hushed folk for years, and he stays prolific as a solo artist with this, his second LP of the year. [Paul Thompson]"
BBC Latest Rock & Indie Reviews: Wilco - The Whole Love
"Their most adventurous, confident and engaging record in years."
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