Wilco Announces New Album, 'Cousin'

Wilco will launch a brand new album known as Cousin on Sept. 29.

“I’m cousin to the world,” frontman Jeff Tweedy mentioned in a press launch. “I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage.”

Cousin was produced by singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, making it the primary time Wilco has labored with a producer exterior of their traditional circle since 2007’s Sky Blue Sky.

The artists met at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in 2019. “Cate is very suspicious of sentiment,” Tweedy mentioned. “But she’s not suspicious of human connection.”

“The amazing thing about Wilco is they can be anything,” Le Bon famous. “They’re so mercurial, and there’s this thread of authenticity that flows through everything they do, whatever the genre, whatever the feel of the record. There aren’t many bands who are able to, this deep into a successful career, successfully change things up.”

You can hear the primary track from the album, “Evicted,” beneath.

“I guess I was trying to write from the point of view of someone struggling to make an argument for themself in the face of overwhelming evidence that they deserve to be locked out of someone’s heart,” Tweedy famous of the album’s first single. “Self-inflicted wounds still hurt and in my experience, they’re almost impossible to fully recover from.”

Cousin, which is Wilco’s thirteenth album, is now obtainable for preorder in vinyl, CD and digital codecs. You can see the album’s observe itemizing beneath.

Wilco, ‘Cousin’ Track Listing
1. “Infinite Surprise”
2. “Ten Dead”
3. “Levee”
4. “Evicted”
5. “Sunlight Ends”
6. “A Bowl and a Pudding”
7. “Cousin”
8. “Pittsburgh”
9. “Soldier Child”
10. “Meant To Be”