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Ode to Joy
Rock · 2019 · 11 tracks · 42m

Ode to Joy

Wilco

Stripped-back, rhythmic, and deeply skeletal. A record of muffled drums and hushed vocals that finds beauty in the grey spaces of modern life.

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It's Wilco if they replaced all their cymbals with wooden boxes and sang in a library.

A quiet, rhythmic meditation on finding small flickers of light in a grey, heavy world.

Ode to Joy · vs · Wilco
Stripped Back+2.0σ

The production is built around stripped back than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks · 42m
01
Bright Leaves
4:11
02
Before Us
3:22
03
One and a Half Stars
3:43
04
Quiet Amplifier
5:49
05
Everyone Hides
2:59
06
White Wooden Cross
3:12
07
Citizens
3:02
08
We Were Lucky
4:57
09
Love Is Everywhere (Beware)
3:33
10
Hold Me Anyway
3:58
11
An Empty Corner
3:48
Moments Worth Waiting For
The heavy, thudding percussion on Bright Leaves that feels like a heartbeat in a hollow room
The slow, tectonic build of Quiet Amplifier as it stretches toward a noisy but controlled peak
The sudden melodic warmth of the chorus in Love Is Everywhere (Beware) breaking through the album's grey mist
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