If Wilco (The Album) was the band tempering their experimental nature into something more accessible, The Whole Love refines that approach and showcases the full range of Wilco's considerable abilities.
The Whole Love reveals itself as their finest album since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
The Whole Love seems like a celebration of that freedom, with songs that roam happily all over the place.
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.
The Whole Love is a finely-tuned, determinedly subtle album, full of discreet touches and unassuming flourishes that can often only be gleaned when paying very close attention.
The Whole Love is a solid return for Wilco, and hopefully them pushing their sound in more new directions as they have done here.
The Whole Love 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.
There’s songs that are more ambitious and some that are more successful, but all of them fit as a cohesive whole
The Whole Love proves the band is still moving forward, still changing, even if it’s not in the lofty ways we expect it to.
The Whole Love is precisely an answer to those who relegate the kind of music Wilco makes as old-timey.
The weird, winsome Whole Love is certainly Wilco's least consistent LP in a while, but inconsistency has its own rewards.
Best plain Wilco album, top 5 Wilco in general, just amazing. Really underappreciated, Art of Almost and title track are some of their best songs for sure
Favourite tracks: Art of Almost, Black Moon, ★ Whole Love, One Sunday Morning
Wilco - 10/16
Well I sure am feelin' a WHOLE lot of LOVE for this album!
“The Whole Love” sees Wilco return to the alternative indie sound that defined such records as “Summerteeth” and “YHF” but with an added sense of maturity and modern flair this time around that aids the material greatly. Somehow the amount of time that has passed since those projects makes the refinement of their ideas here feel so natural; it’s just great hearing a band ... read more
The bookends are huge highlights, but as with Wilco's self-titled release before this, a bulk of these tracks feel like Wilco by the numbers.
It's nice, but they have much more impressionable material than this.
Wilco - 10/16
Well I sure am feelin' a WHOLE lot of LOVE for this album!
“The Whole Love” sees Wilco return to the alternative indie sound that defined such records as “Summerteeth” and “YHF” but with an added sense of maturity and modern flair this time around that aids the material greatly. Somehow the amount of time that has passed since those projects makes the refinement of their ideas here feel so natural; it’s just great hearing a band ... read more
Best plain Wilco album, top 5 Wilco in general, just amazing. Really underappreciated, Art of Almost and title track are some of their best songs for sure
Favourite tracks: Art of Almost, Black Moon, ★ Whole Love, One Sunday Morning
The band continues on their slight downward trajectory but gets weird, and that's a welcome change after the past couple albums.
1 | Art Of Almost 7:16 | 88 |
2 | I Might 3:58 | 85 |
3 | Sunloathe 3:19 | 79 |
4 | Dawned On Me 3:43 | 84 |
5 | Black Moon 3:56 | 85 |
6 | Born Alone 3:55 | 83 |
7 | Open Mind 3:40 | 79 |
8 | Capitol City 4:03 | 75 |
9 | Standing O 3:29 | 74 |
10 | Rising Red Lung 3:09 | 83 |
11 | Whole Love 3:49 | 90 |
12 | One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) 12:03 | 92 |
#1 | / | American Songwriter |
#5 | / | A.V. Club |
#7 | / | Paste |
#8 | / | Rolling Stone |
#15 | / | MAGNET |
#15 | / | Uncut |
#21 | / | The Line of Best Fit |
#22 | / | Pazz and Jop |
#23 | / | Clash |
#26 | / | No Ripcord |