Cruel Country

by Wilco

Cruel Country cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 May 2022
  • Label: dBpm
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:15
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Embracing the genre label they had historically actively avoided, the Chicago sextet recorded this expansive double album entirely live in their Loft studio with no overdubs. The stripped-back, predominantly acoustic arrangements provide a warm, pastoral bed for Jeff Tweedy's disillusioned observations on the splintering of American political identity.

Genres

Descriptors: political, folk, guitars, storytelling, harmonies, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. I Am My Mother (2:35)
  2. Cruel Country (3:26)
  3. Hints (3:38)
  4. Ambulance (3:11)
  5. The Empty Condor (3:53)
  6. Tonight's the Day (3:26)
  7. All Across the World (3:42)
  8. Darkness is Cheap (3:19)
  9. Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull (5:04)
  10. Tired of Taking It Out On You (3:36)
  11. The Universe (3:33)
  12. Many Worlds (7:52)
  13. Hearts Hard to Find (3:27)
  14. Falling Apart (Right Now) (3:16)
  15. Please Be Wrong (3:01)
  16. Story to Tell (4:08)
  17. A Lifetime to Find (4:07)
  18. Country Song Upside-down (2:46)
  19. Mystery Binds (3:08)
  20. Sad Kind of Way (2:48)
  21. The Plains (3:08)

Credits

  • Wilco - primary artist
  • Jeff Tweedy - written-by

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