Listening: Wilco - A Ghost is Born

I will never be an art writer or critic. I’ve been struggling with what to write about this album for a few weeks. I want to tell people how much I like it, but I don’t necessarily have the ability to analyse what it is about it that appeals to me and how that fits into the development of music forms and styles and what contribution Wilco have made to the evolution of rock music and break their music down into their influences and tell you why. But then again I won’t be able to write something like this about how much I like underworld either and I am not sure I want to.

What I can tell you is that this album is as much like their last album as it is different. Jeff Tweedy still sounds mournful most of the time, but the music and the feel is different from the last album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, just as that was different from its predecessor, Summerteeth. I think this is what I like about Wilco, they can move on from a good album to create another, without repeating themselves and without losing anything either.