COUSIN
by Wilco
On the release of last year’s Cruel Country, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy said they had never been comfortable about being considered “alt-country”.
Fair enough, because their 1999 album Summerteeth was along the axis of embellished pastoral pop and power-pop. Its follow-up, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), was a swerve into experimental alt-rock, as courageous and different as U2’s Achtung Baby (1991) and Radiohead’s OK Computer (1997) had been in their careers.
