Tweedy fans, celebrate! Wilco’s singer will release Twilight Override, with 30 unreleased songs, in this fall (in the northern hemisphere)
If you are a fan of Jeff Tweedyyou already know that he writes many songs. Not only in the sense that he spent more than 30 years leading the Wilco Through one of the most rewarding and varied catalogs of American music – although this is also true. In the most literal sense, Tweedy Usually writes at least one song a day. “I sincerely feel the need to have it in my life,” he told Rolling Stone In 2020, the year he published a great book about this daily practice. “I feel better when I do this, and I try not to let it go any day. It’s almost like exercising or something.”
All this composition left Tweedy with material strong enough for a new triple album, Twilight overridewhich will be launched on September 26 by the band Seal itself, DBPM Records. You read right: three records, 30 songs in total. This is its first solo launch since Love is the Kingfrom 2020, which means that this album represents something like the 1.6% best of all the songs he has written in the last five years (please don’t check this account). And the Crème de la crèmeas it were.
Together with the ad, Tweedy He released four excellent new songs to help give an idea of all this. “One Tiny Flower”the first track of disc one is a meditative folk song with a nervous energy that drives it. “Out in the Dark”From album two, it is a relaxed walk in lighter shades, with some fun studio noises coming over the track. “Stray Cats in Spain”from album three, plunges into denser waters, with spinning strings and no audible percussion, just something beautiful. AND “Enough”which is both the last track of the album and its “radio single”, is a lively and contagious explosion of sunny folk-rock, with a sweet electric guitar solo. Right away, just with these songs, it is clear that Twilight override and Tweedy In their best way, and they let you hear more. You can feel that he is on fire, creatively speaking.
In a press release, Jeff Tweedy It explains that it sees creativity as a way of resisting the darkness that dominates the world today. “It’s kind of an infinite buffet these days, a basketless basket in the well,” he writes. “I think that’s why I’ve done so much lately.” It’s hard to disagree when looking at news in the United States and the rest of the world.
Then he brings reflection to a more personal perspective: “Whatever it is, outside (or here), which is squeezing this existential boredom in my days, is completely overwhelming. Hard to ignore. Twilight override It’s my effort to crush it back. ”
Tweedy recorded and produced Twilight override In the studio of Wilco in Chicago, the The loftwith a band formed by trusting employees: their children Spencer (on the battery) and Sammy (in Synths and vocals), besides the guitarist James Elkingtonfrom the bassist Liam Kazar and vocalists SIMA CUNNINGHAM and MACI Stewart (also known as the duo Finomfrom Chicago). Some of the tracklist titles are already familiar for those who have been following the solo shows of Tweedy In recent years or reads your newsletter in the substack; Others are news. One of them, for example, is called “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter”.
Jeff It has also announced a series of dates for a solo tour, mostly scheduled for October and November. Before that, the Wilco the month of August playing a few nights at Outlaw Tour next to Willie Nelson and Bob Dylanfollowed by a wave of shows in the format An evening with Wilco.
Tracklist Twilight override:
Disc
1. One Tiny Flower
2. CAUGHT UP IN THE PAST
3. Parking lot
4. Forever Never Ends
5. Love is for love
6. Mirror
7. Secret Door
8. Betrayed
9. SIGN OF LIFE
10. Throwaway Lines
Disc 2
1. Kc Rain (in Wonder)
2. OUT IN THE DARK
3. BETTER SONG
4. New Orleans
5. Over My Head (Everything Goes)
6. Western Clear Skies
7. Blank Baby
8. No One’s Moving On
9. Feel Free
Disk 3
1. Lou Reed Was My Babysitter
2. Love Bharati
3. Wedding Cake
4. Stray Cats in Spain
5. Ain’t it a shame
6. Twilight override
7. Too Real
8. This is how it ends
9. Saddest Eyes
10. Cry Baby Cry
11.
This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Simon Vozick-Levinson on July 15, 2025, and can be seen here.
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Source: Rollingstone
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