Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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Born of the fragile alliance struck between songwriter Jeff Tweedy, multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett, and sound engineer Jim O’Rourke, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is an album blissfully unharmed by the conflict, artistic and commercial, that marred its recording and production. Tweedy’s cryptic ballads emerge from a meticulously crafted haze of tape loops and subtly dissonant echoes, only to sink again beneath waves of static or crash jarringly into the next track. An instant classic, it’s a hypnotic cry in the dark born of and tailored to the communicative discord of 21st-century America. (Conor Nagle)
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