Blog: Hidden Track

Wilco's a peculiar musical addiction: most of their songs don't quite bowl you over as much as sneak up on you, and you're hooked long before you know it. On what, exactly? It's different for everyone, but is some variation on songs and a core sound that are an uneasily balanced dichotomy: pastoral melodies that give way to apocalyptic sounding guitar squalls; plangent pop and alt-country tunes that find themselves torn open to reveal molten jams and psychedelic cores churning beneath. Jeff Tweedy seems to wear all that on his face: a goofy grin has a way of morphing [...]