While in New Zealand recording with Neil Finn for an upcoming album, Messrs Tweedy, Stirratt, Sansone and Kotche took a shine to the studio they were recording in and, in a creative moment, decided to lay down tracks for an upcoming album.

Back in the States, the absent Cline and Jorgensen added some overdubs. The album doesn’t break new ground, yet manages to capture ghosts of past recordings, ye ...then again, something completely new?

There is nobody like them in the world of music. Most of the disc gives us the impression that the clouds hovering over many of the songs on Sky Blue Sky have lifted. Breezy, pop tunes mix with orchestral ballads while the six-minute jam of Bull Black Nova starts with huge drums, keyboards and guitars before Nels Cline shreds a killer solo. Mmmmm, Wilco ... my stereo and iPod eagerly await your newest creation!