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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-MAR-1999

Wilco's de facto frontman, Jeff Tweedy, sports a colorful past, one where he wrote paint-peelers dedicated to late Minutemen founder D. Boon as a member of the feted (and maybe fated) Uncle Tupelo and where he dolefully crooned Woody Guthrie lyrics on 1998's Mermaid Avenue. But Wilco's Summer Teeth shows hardly a tatter of Tweedy's herky-jerky postpunk intensity or the agrarian rootsiness that so often came in the past from him. Instead this layered album spreads its digits far into guitar-heavy Britpop, with full-group backing vocals carrying bouncy choruses and synths whistling over the melodies. The tunes sound like a crosshatch of orchestral plans and an execution drawing on Alex Chilton and Big Star, the Kinks, and, only distantly, Wilco's debut, A.M. "We're Just Friends" and "Via Chicago" stand as harmonized twists on ballad formulas, the latter recalling Mermaid Avenue's "California Stars" with the opening line, "I dreamed about killing you again last night / And it felt all right to me." So it's not always uplifting or cheery, but it's got dozens of surprises in a mere 15 songs. --Andrew Bartlett

• Can't Stand It
• She's a Jar - Wilco, Bennett, Jay
• A Shot in the Arm - Wilco, Bennett, Jay
• We're Just Friends
• I'm Always in Love
• Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)
• Pieholden Suite
• How to Fight Loneliness
• Via Chicago - Wilco, Tweedy, Jeff
• ELT
• My Darling
• When You Wake Up Feeling Old
• Summer Teeth
• In a Future Age
• Candyfloss [Alternate Version]
• In a Future Age [Alternate Version]

• Label - Reprise / Wea
• Binding - Audio CD