Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Singer-guitarist Jeff Tweedy promised that his band’s new album would make Wilco’s last record seem “obsolete.” Originally scheduled for release last summer, the album certainly represents a departure from the Chicago group’s alt-country classic Being There and its Woody Guthrie collaborations with Billy Bragg.  In fact, songs like the ominous “Radio cure” and the strange “I am trying to break your heart” bear more than a passing resemblance to Radiohead transmissions.