Wilco welcomes new producer Cate Le Bon for 'Cousin,' a weird, beautiful album featuring many songs previously left unfinished for years.
’s “At Least That’s What You Said,” “Infinite Surprise” opens the album with noisy swirls and click-clack percussion before the entire mix is overwhelmed by electronic circuitry manipulation, while “Sunlight Ends” burbles with ping-ponging, treated guitars, Kotche’s rototom accents, and a hazy, dream-like countermelody. Even the most traditionally Wilco-sounding song, the jangling first single “Evicted,” undulates with heretofore unheard ribbons of 12-string arpeggios.
Both Tweedy and Kotche acknowledge that it’s rare for a band this far along in its career to surrender so much of the decision-making to a brand-new collaborator, but they believe the results speak for themselves. “I give Jeff a lot of credit because he happily took a backseat,” Kotche says.
For her part, Le Bon relished “embracing the curiosity and pulling things apart and rebuilding them as a team. Jeff has a beginner’s mind. He can access the heart of something without being sunk by expectation or projection. He continues to only make music that excites him, which is infectious to be around and which ignites the band and energizes him. It’s a beautiful unit of power.
“But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t really fucking affect you,” he continues. “It does. It hurts to feel that ineffectual. It hurts to be in a society that fosters a dissociative state as a way to cope. That’s kind of what a lot of the record seems to be about to me, without maybe explicitly putting it there. There’s a certain detachment from the surroundings. If I look at the singer as the personality or the person, they don’t always seem to be relating to the environment of the music.
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