{"id":931,"date":"2011-07-26T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T03:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=931"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:31:53","slug":"racking-up-plays-i-might-by-wilco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2011\/07\/racking-up-plays-i-might-by-wilco\/","title":{"rendered":"Racking Up Plays: “I Might” by Wilco"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeff Tweedy recording in the Wilco Loft in Chicago. (by Zoran Orlic via wilcoworld.net)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are the posts where I gush about some song that I\u2019ve got a huge crush on at the moment, and you put up with it and listen because you\u2019re a good friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>“I Might,” Wilco<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Wow,” I literally said aloud upon hearing the first single leaked from Wilco’s upcoming eighth studio album, The Whole Love<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0“This song kinda kicks all kinds of ass.”<\/p>\n

It’s not that I was surprised to hear America’s premiere guitar-based experimenters seriously rocking out. Despite what some sneering reviewers<\/a> would have you believe, the Chicago band hasn’t been been all acoustic mellowness in recent years. There have been a<\/a> few<\/a> tracks<\/a> with strong backbeats and snarls of noise on its last few albums. But this song has a freewheeling energy to it that harkens back to the band’s heyday, when Jeff Tweedy et. al. deftly balanced Americana, pop and experimentalism on a trilogy of near-perfect albums: Being There, Summerteeth<\/em> and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe it’s that distorted, elastic bass line sproinging all over the place, or maybe I’ve just on a four-on-the-floor kick lately, but I’m more excited about a new Wilco release than I have been in years. We’ll see if the rest of the album is up to the challenge laid down by this track once it’s officially (self-)released in September<\/a>. In the meantime, it makes me proud to be a Wilco superfan.<\/p>\n

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