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Jeff Tweedy's latest album offers a welcome dose of head and heart at a time when both ought to be celebrated a little more.
90
WARM is brilliant and meditative, and sounds like the work of a person who found something significant after digging through his mind, searching for some sense of his true self.
83
Alive and inspired, WARM is a different type of reinvention—as daring as Wilco’s early landmarks but more subtle and sustainable. He’s not trying to break your heart. He just is.
83
Jeff Tweedy has long grown into his standing as one of rock music’s most innovative songwriters, which might make WARM’s more stripped-down and folksier approach somewhat surprising. But this isn’t the sound of regression. Instead, it’s the work of a seasoned songwriter proving that he’s as good at penning powerful, personal songs in a traditional vein as he is layering records with bells and whistles.
80
Thirty years into his career, Warm shows that Tweedy is as absorbing as ever.
80
This record comes on like the voice of a friend, confessional and familiar - full of small, important reassurances.
80
There’s no need to be a Tweedy-ologist to appreciate Warm. It feels slight at first, but then the refusal to overembellish and overdevelop the songs brings them closer.
80
With his veteran band currently on hiatus, this is convincing proof that Jeff Tweedy’s non-Wilco detours have become more than mere side projects to fill gaps between albums but rather, precious, intimate portraits of a songwriter who’s willing to openly display more of his scars than ever before.
80
So, joy? Well, maybe, if you take joy and interrogate it to the point where it forgets how to dance. Warm is something else, tougher, but no less valuable. It’s a tender manifesto of self-doubt, a shout fading into a murmur.
80
In its own quiet way, Warm is one of the most powerful works of Tweedy's career, and it's the sort of music too many of us need today.
80
Warm is Tweedy unfiltered, a gift that begs to be shared.
80
WARM sees this industrious figurehead of intelligent American rock return to a form where he can balance these two extremes effortlessly and make the deeply personal sound thoroughly universal in a manner that is unlikely to leave cold anyone with a heart that is still beating.
80
It feels like a privilege to hear Tweedy’s songs when he lets them out into the world.
80
Tweedy might be missing his band members, but the restless, resonant spirit that drives Wilco’s best records seeps winningly into WARM just the same.
80
The Wilco frontman’s solo record uses left-fied lustre to keep trad triteness at bay, with moments that upend Americana as beautifully as ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ did with US indie rock.
75
Lyrically accessible without being straightforward, the album allows Tweedy self-disclosure on both past and present, and offers insight into his way of seeing things as he moves forward.
70
The album is frayed at the edges but sturdy where it counts; the guitars scrape and Tweedy’s voice rasps, but even in their scratchiness these eleven songs are impressively tuneful and casually eclectic, reveling in their ramshackle energy and homespun charm.
70
While his emotions are the strong core of the record, it’s really an album that will either entrance you or lull you to a calm.
70
The album comes close, in both timbre and tone, to reflecting the unvarnished Tweedy that shows up at his solo shows.
A bluesy, southern-like inspired indie rock venture from Tweedy that doesn't come as a huge shock from his typical style, but rather is a more down to earth and smooth record than what you may find on a Wilco album. As it is, this is a pretty easy listen and is arguably pretty hard to dislike. It's straight-forward, pleasant, and meditative in a way that just about anyone can find something to like across the record. There aren't many risks to be expected here, but do there always have to ... read more
I'll take it! It's always hard not to compare his work to YHF, but this is a legitimate collection of tracks from Tweedy I'm glad he put out.
Edit: Enjoying this more and more.
Don't remember much about this album. Other than "I Know What It's Like"--a CCR-like personal anthem--this album kinda just breezes by like Jeff Tweedy Lite.
Jeff Tweedy has been responsible for some of the greatest musical works of the last 2 decades, and in his now elder statesman role, he finds some new inspiration. His works, while always emotional and evocative, have always been layered with some form of obstruction. You can’t quite see what he really means, but he hits something in the listener. Here on WARM, something is different. Tweedy’s lyricism is more direct than it’s been for quite some time, and more personally ... read more
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Track List
- Bombs Above
- Some Birds
- Don't Forget
- How Hard It Is For a Desert To Die
- Let's Go Rain
- From Far Away
- I Know What It's Like
- Having Been Is No Way To Be
- The Red Brick
- Warm (When the Sun Has Died)
- How Will I Find You?
Year End Lists
| #6 | / | American Songwriter |
| #32 | / | Thrillist |
| #40 | / | Consequence of Sound |
| #44 | / | Digital Trends |
| #44 | / | Rolling Stone |
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Added on: September 24, 2018