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Wilco recorded it in Chicago between late 2000 and July 2001, Reprise decided it wasn't commercial enough, and the band ended up reclaiming the recordings. On September 29, 2001, they put them online for free. The commercial release would come later, on April 23, 2002, on Nonesuch. A beautiful way to start the story of one of the greatest American rock albums of the 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the first thing \u003cem\u003eYankee Hotel Foxtrot\u003c\/em\u003e does is make it clear that Wilco are no longer particularly interested in being simply Jeff Tweedy's alternative country band. Country is still there, of course, but buried under keyboards, loops, noise, distorted guitars, organs, samplers, and little studio accidents. \u003cem\u003eSummerteeth\u003c\/em\u003e had already begun to break the mold. Here they smash it to pieces. 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Tweedy's voice appears suspended over an electronic background and drums that seem to walk with difficulty. “War on War” brings back melody and chorus, but underneath there is a pretty fucked up sadness: there are no great answers, only the realization that war, anxiety, and small defeats are part of the landscape. And then comes “Jesus, Etc.”, probably the song that proves that this whole experiment could hide a massive melody. Violins, guitar, restrained drums, and one of those phrases that seem simple until you try to write something similar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album is full of contradictions. “Ashes of American Flags” sounds like a road song that has seen too much. “Heavy Metal Drummer” recalls an idealized adolescence and does so with an almost pop lightness. “I’m the Man Who Loves You” seems poised to become a power pop song and, instead, fills up with guitars and arrangements. And “Pot Kettle Black” sinks back into that blurry space where Wilco seem to be playing from inside a broken radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut beneath all that experimentation, the songs are still there. That is the trick. Wilco do not use noise to hide that they have nothing to say. They use it to find new ways of saying it. Jeff Tweedy writes about relationships, anxiety, loneliness, memory, failure, and that pretty American feeling of keeping on going even though you have no fucking idea where you are headed. The lyrics are fragmentary, sometimes surreal, but almost always leave an image stuck in your head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Poor Places” takes the album into another territory. It starts delicately and ends by opening a kind of hole in the center of the album. The noise returns, the voices multiply, and “Reservations” appears afterward as a long emotional hangover. Seven minutes to close an album that has never been in too much of a hurry to get anywhere. 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