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Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is an experience. It is a beautifully messy, heart-wrenching, experimental masterpiece that somehow feels even more relevant twenty-plus years later. I have recently found that Radiohead fans tend to enjoy this album thoroughly, and adding Wilco to your arsenal of Spotify playlists is always a good move.
Rejected by their label, self-released online, and now considered one of the greatest albums of all time—talk about a comeback story. If you haven’t given this one a deep listen (or if it’s been a while), now’s the time.
Feb 10, 2025
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reservations is one of my favorite closing tracks ever. so deceptively simple and a really beautiful sentiment.
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wilco’s music literally always sounds so jubilant to me idk, especially the orchestral part at the end of this song.
yankee hotel foxtrot is also one of the greatest albums ever.
Jul 31, 2024
The first time I heard this album I found it extremely cold and bleak in comparison to other Wilco albums. It's grown on me over the past few months and I think it might be their most creatively daring work. Genius songwriting everywhere, surreal lyrics and this really sterile production. Awesome album
2d ago
this album is doing wonders for my depression—instead of beating it down with a stick, wilco does a fantastic job of making art that acknowledges it for what it is without enabling. lovelovelove!
Dec 18, 2024
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Idk, I want to see more expression on the street
Feb 11, 2025
Feb 13, 2025
Magnolia Electric Co. - Jason Molina & Songs: Ohia
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It was produced by Steve Albini (R.I.P) and was at the height of Jason Molina's career. A few songs legitimately floor me every time I hear them. Farewell Transmission is at the very top of that list. Everything about it hits me viscerally, from the gorgeous lyrics ("Mama here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws"), to that goddamn perfect ending cutting out at just the right moment. "Listen!"
The rest of the album carries on from there, sprawling farther and farther with each song after the opener, and god if Hold On Magnolia isn't a hell of a bookend. The sheer pathos and emotion of this album is incredible. But fuck me if Farewell Transmission isn't just one of the greatest songs of all time.
Anywho, definitely give it a listen!
Feb 3, 2025