A Ghost Is Born - Wilco

To birth a masterpiece is rare enough - to sire another work of similar beauty, power and invention immediately after is something rarer still. Post-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco could have been forgiven for taking it easy for a time. Had they produced, say, another A.M, surely their audience would have understood. Sundering themselves and their songs helped produce one of the defining records of the noughties and a work that will, one feels fairly confident in assuming, continue to inspire and intrigue and intoxicate listeners well into the future. One ALSO feels confident, however, in assuming that said process is an exhausting, draining, demanding affair. If they ...  Read the complete review