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The Whole Love - Wilco
  • Band Name: Wilco
  • Record Label: Anti
  • Release Date: Sep 27, 2011
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83 out of 100

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8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 37 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Chicago alternative rock band releases its eighth studio album on its own label dBom.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 40
  3. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. NOW Magazine
    Sep 29, 2011
    100
    Wilco's ace eighth album, the first released on their own label, dBpm, is a real kick in the pants.
  2. The Boston Phoenix
    Sep 27, 2011
    100
    The Whole Love feels like a truly audacious studio record, jam-packed with instruments, ideas, and the sort of restless creativity that marked 2002's game-changer, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
  3. The Observer (UK)
    Sep 26, 2011
    60
    It may not rank among Wilco's boldest works. It could have done with more wig-outs. But it captures the art of the almost with both hands.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. spacecadet
    10
    hands down the best album of the year.. strikes from the first second and refuses to let go! the last song didn't really have to be 12 minutes, and while being great kind of sucks the life out of you with repetitiveness.. but definitely a keeper… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. j30
    10
    The first great album of the new decade. An album, so diverse, you can't get it out of your head. Each time I listen to the album the more I respect it's musicianship and lyrics. From the muscle flexing "Art of Almost" to the epic beauty of "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)", it's their most captivating album since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. Superstar
    10
    Excrptional! I must confess that I thought the band's best days were behind them. While "Sky Blue Sky" and "Wilco (The Album)" were reasonably strong, I felt they were not up to the standards set by the previous albums that had me rating them the best and most important band in rock'n roll. Well now they are back and better then ever. The album opens with an instant classic in "Art of Almost" and just keeps going. Equally impressive are some of the rockers like "I Might", "Born Alone" and "Standing O". The album clses with another gem with the sprawling "One Sunday Morning" which punctuates Wilco's finest ever and the best album of 2011!… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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