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- Summary: The Chicago alternative rock band releases its eighth studio album on its own label dBom.
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- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Was I wrong? Off all night long? So high, as the stinking sun I came alive, then I felt, Oh Uh Oh Some guys have everything I know It’s... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 38 out of 40
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Mixed: 2 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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Sep 29, 2011Wilco's ace eighth album, the first released on their own label, dBpm, is a real kick in the pants.
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Sep 26, 2011Quite simply, this is the work of a great band at the peak of their powers, and The Whole Love is a joy to hear, revealing more with each listen and confirming once again that Wilco is as good a band as American can claim in the 21st century.
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Sep 27, 2011The Whole Love reveals itself as their finest album since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
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Sep 21, 2011The Whole Love feels more of a piece with 1999's Summerteeth, the caustic pop opus on which Tweedy sped away from alt-country (or y'allternative, No Depression, whatever) in a car far sleeker (and blacker) than the one Hank Williams supposedly died in.
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UncutSep 23, 2011While the album is packed with inventive moments, there's no more lacerating skronk, for a very good reason: the emotions the band is mirroring don't call for it. [Oct 2011, p.82]
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Sep 23, 2011As a sheer sound experience, The Whole Love is rewarding, a tapestry of tiny details that invites close listening.
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MagnetNov 11, 2011The Whole Love works best as aural comfort food.[#81, p. 60]
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Positive: 21 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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Sep 28, 2011
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Oct 28, 2011
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Dec 14, 2011I appreciate musicians that innovate and try new things, but itâ
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