still their best

Review Score: (10/10)
This is one of the masterpieces of the last decade, a rowdy, wounded, beautiful beast of an album. Jeff Tweedy was writing rings around any of his contemporaries: "Far Far Away", "The Lonely One", "Monday", "Outta Mind Outta Sight". Even the couple of indulgent noodling tracks halfway through disc 2 hit the spot for me, and add to the sprawling range of this music.

Interesting the way "Misunderstood" and "Sunken Treasure" now sound like precursors to the random structures and noises of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". I prefer them; they have a sponteneity and energy that YHF is missing.

This was a hell of a hot session, where they knocked off 80 minutes worth of masterful songs. What more could you want from a couple of shiny plastic discs?

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