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9.0
113960
9.0 |
Uncut
The songs here are simple, but they contain multitudes
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8.5
113956
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Mandatory listening for anyone interested in the enduring creative potential of rock - sorry, folk – music
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8.4
114011
8.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Wilco’s eleventh full-length is a love letter to anyone who fell in love with the band’s earliest material
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8.0
113998
8.0 |
The FT
The songs initially have a semi-defeated air, but a happy outburst of classic rock underlines breakthrough
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8.0
114000
8.0 |
No Ripcord
The most striking aspect of Ode to Joy is how weary Tweedy sounds
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8.0
114002
8.0 |
The Observer
It all adds up to yet another winning set from a band still to release a subpar album in a 25-year career
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8.0
114211
8.0 |
Exclaim
It's a multi-layered affair but each one provokes serious feelings and thoughts for those who peel them back
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8.0
113957
8.0 |
The Independent
This is a quietly momentous album of depth, soothing in its introspection
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8.0
113947
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
These are gnomic short stories of the Republic, and pure Tweedy feelings
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8.0
113955
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
With Ode To Joy, for the first time in perhaps fifteen years, Wilco have found a way to be truly relevant, again
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
The culmination of a musical evolution Wilco have been working towards for years
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8.0
113945
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The group’s 11th LP, their best in years, is a beautiful exercise in downhearted uplift.
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8.0
113961
8.0 |
Mojo
This is a sparse, minimalist ode to joy. Print edition only
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8.0
113962
8.0 |
Q
Shivers on this ledge between defiance and dissolution. Despite Tweedy's fears, it turns out more Wilco music is exactly what's needed. Print edition only
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8.0
113963
8.0 |
Record Collector
In trying times, Wilco have found some joy in creativity and made another album true to themselves, full of “poetry and magic” to console and inspire
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8.0
113973
8.0 |
The Guardian
Stripped back it may be, but Wilco’s 11th album combines expressive lyrics about change with big singalong choruses
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8.0
113974
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Quiet reflections grow mightier by the minute
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8.0
113979
8.0 |
All Music
Ode to Joy reveals that after their sabbatical, Wilco are more than willing to explore the boundaries of their music, and they do so with the confidence and sense of daring that has marked their best work from Being There onward
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8.0
113980
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
These are big, warm beautiful songs, full of sincerity but always with a trick up their sleeves
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7.8
114026
7.8 |
Pitchfork
Wilco’s 11th album is direct and spacious, centering on the beauty of quiet revelation
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7.5
113991
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Jeff Tweedy and Chicago's finest rock band stick within their rich comfort zone
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7.5
113983
7.5 |
Paste Magazine
Title is a fitting description of an album with a subtle sense of buoyancy
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7.5
113946
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Ode to Joy is a seemingly small-scale record; a pale-skinned beauty of an album that has much to say, says it deliberately, often quietly; like a whisper of advice from an old friend reminding you that you, me, we... need to carry on
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7.0
113944
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
The band’s 11th album doesn’t break the mold, though its sound is a bit more pared down
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
In allowing a bit of discomfort into their music, Wilco may yet rediscover what made them so captivating in the first place
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7.0
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7.0 |
Gigwise
An album that wants you to embrace it, despite its cold and monolithic shell
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7.0
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7.0 |
The 405
Ode to Joy does more than just rest on the laurels of Jeff Tweedy’s indelible vocal melodies and, with its comfortably competent songwriting and general lack of any real, conceited excess, is easily one of their better releases this decade
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6.0
114238
6.0 |
PopMatters
Wilco's Ode to Joy shows a band invigorated by studio flourishes and unexpected complications
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