Jeff Tweedy -《Together At Last 》( 相逢应不识)[24 bits 96 KHz][FLAC]

专辑英文名: Together At Last
专辑中文名:  相逢应不识
歌手: Jeff Tweedy
音乐风格: 乡村
资源格式: FLAC
版本: [24 bits 96 KHz]
发行时间: 2017年06月23日
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介: 
专辑介绍:
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艺人 Jeff Tweedy
发行月份 2017-Jun
类型 西洋歌曲 另类
引用“I shake like a toothache when I hear myself sing,” Jeff Tweedy confesses on “Ashes of American Flags”. Those sound like the words of a man who wouldn’t entertain the idea of releasing a solo acoustic record. Maybe when the song was first released 15 years ago, they were true. Nonetheless, here the track is, smack in the center of a record capturing the Wilco frontman all by his lonesome.
Together at Last, which promises to be the first in a series of solo efforts from the singer, assembles 11 tracks from across Tweedy’s expansive back catalog and strips them down to their bare acoustic bones. With no one to turn or pass the spotlight to (save for longtime Wilco engineer Tom Schick), Tweedy settles in for some quality time with his own songs, including some originally recorded with side projects Loose Fur and Golden Smog. Never has Tweedy been this introspective on record, letting his words and feelings hang wide out in the open. Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on which side of the singer appeals to you: the experimental wunderkind or the moody troubadour.
Tweedy’s always been a little bit of both, even if it’s the former that typically grabs the attention of fans and critics. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, released in 2002, made Tweedy a household name in rock circles, and his reputation as one of his generation’s great songwriters only grew on the back of equally adventurous Wilco efforts that followed. A Ghost Is Born was a complicated, drug-addled opus. The Whole Love marked the band’s full-circle return to experimentalism after two comparatively straightforward releases. Star Wars, released in 2015, is full of moments as sonically out of bounds as its title implies. The beat on Tweedy is that of a playful, wily musical maverick backed by one of the most prodigiously talented bands in the land.
But to focus solely on this is to ignore what kind of songwriter he truly is at heart. Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, and early Wilco records revealed Tweedy to be a boozy, heartbroken balladeer. That side of him never left, even as Wilco won the world’s ear as one of the most exciting American rock bands of the 2000s. Together at Last gives more focus and attention to that quieter side of Tweedy’s musical persona, one influenced more by a singer-songwriter approach than a desire to break down rock and roll barriers. By stripping away the instrumental bulk and studio touches that defined records like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, and Summerteeth, Tweedy actually makes his songs sound even more human and personal.
That’s no small feat when you’re dealing with some of the best tunes in the Tweedy songbook. But the singer’s attempts at pulling back and letting the core of his songs do the work mostly succeed on Together at Last. “Via Chicago”, as done on Summerteeth, is as sublime a song as Tweedy’s written, but pared down to nothing more than a guitar, harmonica, and his voice, the song sounds even more fragile and despondent than its predecessor. He employs the same “less is more” approach to the record’s remaining 10 tracks. Tweedy ditches the ambient strangeness that defines Loose Fur’s “Laminated Cat” in favor of his quiet, semi-stoned voice and an acoustic guitar. “Dawned on Me” and “I’m Always in Love”, two of Wilco’s more upbeat numbers, are equally well-serviced when left to Tweedy’s own devices. As gorgeously ornate as his songs can be, many of Tweedy’s songs crave intimacy, and he affords them that much here.
What you see is exactly what you get on Together at Last. It’s Tweedy perched up in is Chicago loft giving his own songs the coffee house treatment. It’s hardly his most sexy or dazzling effort, and that’s admittedly by design. But even without the willful innovation, the record is important evidence to just how strong and poignant his songs are in skeletal form. Wilco is nowhere to be found here, but Together at Last is still a very good Jeff Tweedy record that should hold over fans until his band’s next musical flight of fancy.
Essential Tracks: “Via Chicago”, “Laminated Cat”, and “Dawned on Me”
RELEASE DATE JUNE 23, 2017
LABEL ANTI-
FORMATS DIGITAL, VINYL, CD
Armed only with his acoustic guitar, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy offers stripped-down versions of songs pulled from across his catalog, including songs originally cut with Loose Fur and Golden Smog.
For Wilco’s entire history, the band’s leader, Jeff Tweedy, has existed as a solo artist. Though the songwriter’s solo recorded output has been limited to the likes of bootlegs and the original score for the 2001 Ethan Hawke film Chelsea Walls, Tweedy alone thrives in a live setting. These shows are the only place where Wilco favorites and deep cuts sit comfortably beside songs from his other projects: alt-country cornerstone Uncle Tupelo, a strum-and-hiss trio with Jim O’Rourke and Glenn Kotche called Loose Fur, the rotating roots-rock collective Golden Smog, or, most recently, his father/son project Tweedy. And the appeal of his solo shows shows goes beyond the music. Tweedy’s curmudgeonly performance presence—from the stage, he discourages clapping along and isn’t afraid to call out those making too much noise—imparts a sense of conversational intimacy.
Together at Last celebrates Tweedy’s live solo presence, even if that isn’t the explicit intention. On 11 tracks that focus on his work in Wilco, along with a stray song each from Loose Fur and Golden Smog, the almost exclusively solo acoustic arrangements are similar, if not exactly the same, to the ones he’s been performing in theaters for years. The album is the first in a series recorded at his Chicago studio that will highlight his life as a songwriter, and it revises some of Tweedy’s best moments with mixed results.
Summerteeth standout “Via Chicago” and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot opener “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” are both all-timers, songs that transcend the Wilco songbook and stand worthy of these stripped-down, acoustic retellings. They work because of their contrast to their original recordings, both of which used deconstruction and clutter to maneuver Wilco’s straightforward melodies into more complicated territory, one that evoked transistor radio nostalgia and wistful memories. These production turns would ultimately distinguish Wilco from their alt-country peers, but here we’re reminded of how sturdy the songs are on their own. Deeper YHF cut “Ashes of American Flags” gets a similar treatment, with a spare re-recording to underscore lyrics that look for signs of hope from within moments of bleakness. Tweedy’s claim that he would “die if I could come back new” quivers with years of reflection, the song flowing with a new life.
Together at Last has only two non-Wilco tracks, but they illustrate what the set does best. “Laminated Cat” exists in a few different forms, including both the fuzzed-out YHF outtake “Not for the Season” and the Loose Fur version that infuses Tweedy’s straight-ahead pop sensibility with the hisses and squeals of his collaborators. But here, the bare-bones arrangement highlights the song’s calendar-flipping poetry, accentuating each verse’s sense of seasonal discomfort at the uncontrollable passing of time. Golden Smog’s “Lost Love” is an even a deeper dig, anchored by a wide-eyed sentiment that doesn’t try to be more than a direct love song. “Broken hearts all around me, but I don’t feel a thing,” Tweedy sings, lacking the cracked-skin weariness present on many of these new recordings, and thus honoring the youthful conceit of temporary romance that he wrote about 20 years earlier. This is Tweedy as excavator, rescuing a pair of gems that have been hidden in obscurity and offering them a fresh chance at appreciation.
Just as often, though, Together at Last lacks a sense of purpose. “Dawned on Me” and “I’m Always in Love” show how much the upbeat originals rely on production for their full impact. As acoustic renditions, they offer little more than skeletons of their former selves. “Hummingbird” fares even worse, with Tweedy, possibly unable to hit the song’s falsetto climax, whistling in place of a full-band coda. In a live setting, he’d be able to crack a joke about this affectation and move on from the moment, but on record, the song just hangs there, crying out for a little levity. With his wry charm absent, the album ultimately shows only a partial picture of Jeff Tweedy as a solo artist.
专辑曲目: 
01. Via Chicago
02. Laminated Cat
03. Lost Love
04. Muzzle of Bees
05. Ashes of American Flags
06. Dawned On Me
07. In a Future Age
08. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
09. Hummingbird
10. I'm Always In Love
11. Sky Blue Sky
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