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10.0
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God Is In The TV
Those who doubted Wilco and feared for their ability to experiment in recent times will find much to rejoice in here
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10.0
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10.0 |
Rave Magazine
The best album since A Ghost Is Born, with the psych-y dirges, pop smarts and heart to prove it
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9.1
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9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
The Whole Love is a quintessential Wilco album, which means it exists mostly in slow-tempo and drags on a bit too long. But love demands you forgive its failings, and The Whole Love does just that. Totally
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9.0
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Blurt
This is the best and most adventurous set of Wilco songs in nearly a decade
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
One of their best albums
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9.0
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FasterLouder
Undoubtedly one of the best albums of the year, The Whole Love is an eloquent report on loneliness, confusion and nostalgia in contemporary America
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9.0
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Clash
Jeff Tweedy seems to be a lyricist no longer at war with himself. An excellent return
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8.5
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The AU Review
Wilco fans should be happy, this ain’t no YHF, but it’s hugely satisfying
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8.5
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BBC
Their most adventurous, confident and engaging record in years
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8.5
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Paste Magazine
Their finest album since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
A band come together, done throwing curveballs, comfortable in its own thickening skin. Wilco are just doing what they do best, and doing it better than ever
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8.0
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Slant Magazine
Easily represents the Wilco's most adventurous and fully realized work in years
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8.0
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Scotland on Sunday
This is one fantastically flawed masterpiece
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8.0
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The Quietus
Wilco at the top of their game, or at least close to it, patrolling territory they’ve made their own
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8.0
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The 405
Although seemingly representing something of a “Best Of Wilco," the album may leave you thoroughly satisfied, yet hungry for the delights of past albums
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8.0
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musicOMH
The sound of a band entirely comfortable and confident with where they are
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Suggests a jam band a hipster could love, with every note so tasty and rich you need to hit the gym after a couple of listens
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8.0
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Mojo
Against all logic, Wilco get better with age. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
No longer the American Radiohead, as the true believers proclaimed a decade ago, this incarnation of Wilco is closer to a post-millennial Buffalo Springfield
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8.0
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Spin
The Whole Love feels more of a piece with 1999's Summerteeth, the caustic pop opus on which Tweedy sped away from alt-country
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8.0
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The Irish Times
A strident return
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8.0
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The Independent
As absorbing as any you'll hear this year
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8.0
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The Guardian
Produced so inventively that it still often feels avant garde, The Whole Love unifies Wilco's leftfield and pop sensibilities
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8.0
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Evening Standard
The best is saved for last in One Sunday Morning, based on a delicate acoustic guitar phrase and destined for classic status
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8.0
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Q
A warm, spirited pop record that holds its own against everything else in their canon. Print edition only
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Consequence Of Sound
Most of the tracks borrow from different eras of the band’s career, and the record marks their best since 2004's A Ghost Is Born
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7.5
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Beats Per Minute
A solid return for Wilco, and hopefully them pushing their sound in more new directions as they have done here
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7.5
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Prefix
The Whole Love has the band giving more than in the recent past, but the combustible musical debate at the band’s core seems largely to have ceased. Wilco may still have the ability to thrill, but they’ve lost the ability to surprise
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7.5
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A.V. Club
Breezes by like a sunny Saturday afternoon among best friends. Now that Wilco has finally found its comfort zone, it might be time to venture elsewhere for a change
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
Like its two predecessors, The Whole Love has been made entirely by the six middle aged men who currently play a part in Wilco, and it’s an accurate reflection of their talents
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7.0
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NME
An album that might be all over the place, but one that's more interesting because of it
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7.0
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No Ripcord
Finds them in an ongoing battle to avoid falling for convenience whilst accepting that traditionalism is something they can’t ignore because they execute it well
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7.0
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DIY
While 'The Whole Love' doesn't quite have the emotional reach or sheer cosmic rightness of 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', nor the outrageous dynamics of 'A Ghost Is Born', somehow, drifting in their slipstream, it's very nearly as satisfying
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Under The Radar
As elusively and pleasingly unobvious as ever
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7.0
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PopMatters
This isn’t a return to form, nor is it an out-and-out reinvention. It’s just the new Wilco album, and like all new Wilco albums, it doesn’t sound much like what came before it
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6.8
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Pitchfork
At its best, The Whole Love finds Wilco casting aside the caution, reveling in their own contradictions
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6.0
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Bowlegs
Tweedy may be in a feisty mood, and the electric guitars may squeal intermittently, but that aside, this is middle-row Wilco
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The Observer
A nuanced, feel-good album full of open-endedness, laced with the kinds of observations only instruments can make fluently. It may not rank among Wilco's boldest works
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6.0
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State
All in all, new ground here remains unbroken. But the terrain they traverse was created by them in the first place
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