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By Wilco (2001)
When this came out in 2001, I think I took against it because... I wanted to watch Beirut, and the only way to do that in the UK was to go to a Wilco show. So I spitefully just didn't listen to it. I don't write this because it's flattering. Probably more because maybe writing it down will relieve the weight I feel from past me being so childish. It won't, but it might.
Anyway. The album is fine. I still wouldn't particularly want to go to a Wilco show, but if I could go back in time, at least I would compromise and go and see Beirut back in the Gulag Orkestar days. The Flying Club Cup is the better Beirut album, though. But seeing Postcards from Italy and Rhineland live back then would have been great.
Oh yeah. This is about Wilco, not Beirut. It's been on in the background while I've been thinking about Beirut. They're not even particularly sonically similar. A good pair for touring, sure, but... no, write about Wilco. Wait we're only on track three? Hasn't this been on for ages?
Reading back Pitchfork's 10/10 review for this album, I still can't quite get myself to care. It feels like it has so many things I like from elsewhere, but no song ever comes together, and neither does the album.
I did see Beirut years later, by the way. It was alright.
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