At just over 35 minutes a few extra songs would be welcome. But this is a worthy successor to 2013’s terrific debut from these veterans and hopefully won’t be the last.
Colter Wall captures a long-forgotten time and place, keeping the cowboy folklore alive by reminding us that poignant songs sung by a superb singer will never sound outdated.
This closes the book on Bradley’s brief career, and does it with the class, honesty, integrity and intensity he brought to everything he touched.
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.
It’s her boldest, toughest and at times most melancholy release, challenging herself and her audience, to look ahead, not back.