Jeff Tweedy follows-up the last Wilco album, 2016’s Schmilco, and 2017’s Together at Last, with a joint memoir titled Let’s Go and a companion solo album titled Warm, which is a collection of personal reflections and existential ponderings on aging and socio-political issues. Warm was produced and recorded by Tweedy at Chicago’s now-legendary studio The Loft with contributions from his son Spencer, Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, and noted producer, mixer and engineer Tom Schick. The result is a record that is more wholehearted and intimate than a Wilco record; one that new and old fans alike will enjoy. Album highlights include: the emotive opening track “Bombs Above”; the twangy “Don’t Forget”; the first single “Some Birds”; the upbeat tongue-in-cheek “Let’s Go Rain”; the biting “Having Been Is No Way to Be”; the hushed beauty of “Warm (When the Sun Has Died)”; the downbeat “How Hard It Is for a Desert to Die”; and the meandering closing song, “How Will I Find You.” Warm is an excellent album and aims to bring a little sunshine during the hard times we live in. – Written by JFelton
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