Jeff Tweedy - WARM
Critic Score
Based on 25 reviews
2018 Ratings: #157 / 890
User Score
Based on 200 ratings
2018 Rank: #355
Liked by 9 people
November 30, 2018 / Release Date
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Skinny

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
Exclaim!

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.

85
Under the Radar

What materializes is a confounding collection of literary mastery, intertwined with sparse, albeit flummoxing instrumental compositions—tender acoustic and slide-guitar arrangements, adroitly managed bursts of noise, and a rhythm section that puts the movements of life into a neat, cohesive order.

83
Pitchfork

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
Consequence of Sound

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
Rolling Stone
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
The Irish Times

The glitchy wonder of From Far Away recalls the Wilco album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but Warm evolved from Tweedy's solo performances, and a creeping sense that in destructive times, we build.

80
Q Magazine

Every one here is a gem.

80
The Observer

Thirty years into his career, Warm shows that Tweedy is as absorbing as ever.

80
Mojo
It's a journey beyond self-consciousness and towards mature vulnerability, to an evolved idea of what is musically pure.
80
Uncut

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
The Guardian

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
Clash
This record comes on like the voice of a friend, confessional and familiar - full of small, important reassurances.
80
American Songwriter

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 Line of Best Fit

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
Paste

It feels like a privilege to hear Tweedy’s songs when he lets them out into the world.

80
NME

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.

80
AllMusic

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
PopMatters

Warm is Tweedy unfiltered, a gift that begs to be shared.

80
Drowned in Sound

These are ultimately ... personal stories that are elevated by their universal nature.

75
Spectrum Culture

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
Slant Magazine

The album comes close, in both timbre and tone, to reflecting the unvarnished Tweedy that shows up at his solo shows.

70
Northern Transmissions

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
FLOOD Magazine
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.
40
Gigwise
It’s a bright and breezy little jam record, but alas way too scruffy to hold up with the best of Wilco.
heavymetalbumma
82

Best Line: Don't forget to brush your teeth

MasterCrackfox
75

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

laz456
75

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.

dirtyal
68

very stripped atmosphere with great poetry

heavymetalbumma
82

Best Line: Don't forget to brush your teeth

MagnetoJenkins
69

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.

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Added on: September 24, 2018