Twilight Override

Initial thoughts: Released in the last few months, triple album by the guy from Wilco. Already I'm dreading this. It's not old enough to have developed any musical relevance or generally to pull in any cultural relevance that isn't just a fad. The cover is actually quite good though. I feel like I know what this album is going to feel (depressing and moody) like from the cover alone. Upon Listening: Well, this is certainly better than any Wilco album I've listened to. I feel like this album has captured the mood of "pleasant boredom" and not in a derogatory way. It seems like the artist was trying to fight back against the creeping distress of modern times, but I'm not feeling the resistance to oppression that I would associate with that mood. Perhaps Jeff just doesn't understand the political milieu that we live in and is failing to attribute the source of his distress in the appropriate direction. Also, you include a track called "This is How it Ends" and put it three tracks before the end of the album? Big miss. From my predictions: This album is indeed too long, and probably could have been released as a 30 minute EP of highlights rather than a triple. I don't feel any cultural or musical relevance to this album, at best it may got down as the source of some of Jeff's better singles. I was wrong about the themes from the cover, yes it's moody, but I wouldn't call more than a couple of songs depressing, and those blend in well with a more mid-toned feeling. Overall, I still think the cover is a good fit, and a great piece of art. I'd probably give it a 4/5 if this was the 1001 album covers you must see before you die. Overall: I really want to give this a 3, there is a good theme throughout the album and there are a lot of decent songs on here. But, it overstayed it's welcome by the B side and I was checking to see how many tracks I had left after the first 30 minutes. Highlights: Theme and cover art Lowlights: too long and most of the tracks were forgettable

Twilight Override is the fifth solo album of Wilco singer and songwriter Jeff Tweedy. These solo and other projects of Tweedy exist in large numbers. This is one of the better ones. His solo albums are comparable with the slower work of Wilco. This means you will miss the dynamic of the Wilco songs that explode in guitar eruptions and the variation between soft, strange and up-tempo. I personally miss the Nels Cline guitar insanity the most. Also this album is too long. It is not one of those long albums that is full of filler material, but a more condensed version could have been a truly fantastic one. Still this is a solid 3 to 4 stars submission.

Bro made me miss Drake’s generational fall off

I had listened to this a few times when it came out, and overall it's a very good album. As others have pointed out, it's very long, and could certainly have used some ruthless culling of songs. Not that there is a lot of filler her, but definitely some songs feel weaker than others. I take the title, Twilight Override, as Tweedy making a statement - even though it may seem that he's in the twilight of his career, he's still a vital artist making interesting music, not just phoning it in. That's probably just my interpretation but, if it is the case, I think he succeeded. 4 stars.

This was not good enough to warrant 1hr 52mins worth of listening. I may have had a different opinion if it had been more concise. Suggesting an album of this length - delusional.

This was like a mellow float down a lazy river… just a perfect thing for a relaxing afternoon in the sun. There’s a lot of music here - but I enjoyed it all the way through.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: One tiny flower, Out in the dark, Lou Reed was my babysitter, Enough

Kinda dig it. Way too long but I still enjoyed it. Engaging and relaxing. I like Jeff’s voice a lot.

Odd that I've gotten an album from 2024 and an album from 2025 on back to back days. Even odder that I'm getting a Jeff Tweedy album, given that Wilco is one of the bands that I've seen more than any other. I really enjoy the music that they make together, but I have more trouble getting into Jeff's solo stuff. That's pretty normal for me, since it's pretty folky, and I'm not really a folk guy, despite my love for the adjacent alt-country genre. Still, it's a pleasant listen. Tweedy writes good songs, and his voice has held up well over the years 4/5

I had not listened to this Jeff Tweedy *triple album* (gasp!) last year. To my defense, I had so many other releases to listen to, and I had bad memories of trying to enjoy that overpraised 2020 double album by Wilco (*Cruel Country*) and getting bored out of my mind by the experience (even though I really liked the band's subsequent and latest LP *Cousin*, with stellar production work by Cate Le Bon). So, a *triple album* now? No fucking way! Now that I *have* spun *Twilight Override*, it turns out I was rather wrong not to spend some time on it. Surprisingly, the triple disc format doesn't yield that many valleys, all things considered (even if there are some!), and the peaks are absolutely fabulous. The latter are mostly found in the first half of the first disc (everything from "One Tiny Flower" to "Love is For Love" is excellent), to which you can add the second half of the second disc. If you want to dig up the gold in the third disc, you'll have to separate the wheat from the chaff one track after the next there. Sorry I couldn't help further for that third part, did my best for the first two discs, though, ha ha! Throughout the tracklist, the best songs are quite evenly split between moody or expansive slow-burners, most of them nearly spoken-word cuts ("One Tiny Flower", "Parking Lot", "Western Clear Skies", "Blank Baby", "No One's Moving On", "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter" -- wearing its tongue-in-cheek source of inspiration on its sleeve -- "Twilight Override", "Too Real"), and timeless, more straightforward quote-unquote "traditional" folk and folk-rock songs. Some choruses and vocal hooks among the latter are instantly likeable. Those great moments can be found in "Caught Up In The Past", "Forever Never Ends", "Feel Free", "Stray Cats In Spain" -- this time taking a page out of John Cale's *1919* for its poignant classical orchestration --, and also the Neil Young-adjacent "This Is How It Ends", along with the lively closer "Enough". All those songs are up there with the greatest compositions ever written by Wilco, and there's quite a bunch of them in the album! The rest is made of admittedly deeper cuts, some of them a little too mundane-sounding, but the seventies-inspired arrangements (fiddle, guitar solos, backing vocals...) also gracing those less immediately striking songs -- going from soft psychedelia to barebones country rock -- are doing a lot of groundwork to make the whole thing sound endearing at least. Many thanks to the user who suggested this. Without you, I would only have listened to the album in ten years or so, realizing too late what a mistake it was not to spin it earlier. I still think the best bits would have fit in a single CD, and if Tweedy had abandoned the triple-disc idea (whose physical copies are *awfully* expensive right now!), we would most surely have had the magnum opus of the artist's career as a solo act. Not so sure that's what we having now with the very long runtime of the current tracklist... Which means that it's still quite a missed opportunity in my book. Fortunately, that doesn't mean we can't enjoy those best bits on streaming services. Like Tweedy seems to sing about himself in so many of these songs, we're all getting old, but the glass is still half-full, at least. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums, rounded up to 4 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5/5 for the musicianship and production values + 3.5/5 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 102 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 113 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 239 (including this one) ---- Hey Émile, j'ai répondu sous Demon Days ET ta sélection pour la users list ! 🙂

3 So long For what reason

Nice album but jsut too long for me to ever come back to this one. Felt a slog come the end.

Average singer songwriter album. Nothing too special about it.

Alternative country, alternative rock, indie rock, country rock. Ni fu ni fa.

Lovely singer songwriter guy. The Lou reed inspirations are obvious. No one needs to release a triple album

Once again, promoting a two plus hour triple album for your pick on this thing is a pretty aggressive move, and I haven't gotten around to finishing it yet, though I probably will which says something. It's about what I'd expect from this person, so it's good, though I don't know it distinguishes itself particularly from a lot of similar fare or the product of his better known bands.

It was fine

Good music as you often get from Tweedy, but I struggle to see thw purpose of making this 2 hours

The album itself is a 3 – it’s entirely too long, but despite a two-hour runtime contains some of the most beautiful, exciting Tweedy songs I’ve ever heard on discs 2 and 3. Some editorial verve from Jeff could have pushed a smaller collection of tracks to a 4 or 5, but I’m just glad it wasn’t a slog to get through. Docking a star on principle because this album isn’t even a year old. I swear, from how many LPs get added that have come out only months (or weeks!) ago it seems y’all have the attention span of a goldfish. There’s not a single meaningful album from your adolescence or adulthood that isn’t already on the user list? Even if the recent releases are decent listens, they fly in the face of what the 1001 is about. You’re basically gambling on a newborn becoming a hall of famer when there are so many titanic players still missing here.

I like ol Tweedy. But this is too long brother

A triple album! That’s like asking someone their favourite holiday spot and being handed a Lonely Planet guidebook for an entire hemisphere.

2.5