wilco - a ghost is born


this is a weird little record. it combines wilco's patented alt country feel with their newer left field elements. some songs are plain straight but still tinged with slightly weird chord progressions that make them all the more intruiging. then there's "spiders kidsmoke" with it's long sections imitating the metronomic feel of Babaluma Can abrubtly changed into an uplifting rock chord progression and back again. and there's also "less than you think" with it's fairly dull soft plaintive rock morphing into 11 minutes of something like glitch drone. and the neil young / phil manzanera style guitar solos. and "handshake drugs" chugging along (great for walking!) [isn't this a bit from one of their other albums??].

i have no idea who the hell is going to enjoy this all the way through.