Wilco Announce New Album, ‘Cousin’, Share Single: Listen
Wilco have announced their new album, Cousin, released 29 September on dBpm Records. The first single from the album, Evicted, is out now – watch the lyric video below.
Cousin will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally, and is available for pre-order now.
The band tours Europe, the UK, Ireland, Mexico and the United States surrounding the album’s release, see dates below – tickets on sale here.
“I’m cousin to the world,” frontman Jeff Tweedy confesses. “I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage.” Produced by the singular Welsh artist Cate Le Bon, Cousin marks the first time Wilco have handed the reins over to a producer outside their immediate circle of collaborators since Sky Blue Sky. Le Bon’s influences — among them the inclusion of saxophone, cheap Japanese guitars, and a cinematic, New Wave-style drum machine — drive the album into the future. The result is Wilco’s most pointed and evocative album, one related but not tied to our present moment, truly new ground for a band that has tested musical boundaries throughout its lengthy career.
Le Bon arrived in Chicago to rebuild: to create a scaffold with Glenn Kotche’s architectural drumming and John Stirratt’s contrapuntal bass lines; a scene with Mikael Jorgensen’s cold, lonesome synths, Pat Sansone’s plaintive piano work, and guest instrumentalist Euan Hinshelwood’s mangled saxophones; and a topographic pattern out of Tweedy’s electric guitar bends and Nels Cline’s textural explosions, which Le Bon describes as “the weather,” to carve a path for Tweedy’s yearning lyrics.
Wilco Tour Dates:
August
10 – Cochran, BE @ Lokerse Feesten
12 – Aranda de Duero, ES @ Sonorama Festival
14 – St. Feliu de Guíxols, ES @ Festival Porta Ferrada $
16 – Marbella, ES @ Starlite Marbella $
17 – Alicante, ES @ Plaza de Toros $
19 – Portugal, ES @ Paredes de Coura Festival
20 – Vigo, ES @ Espazos Festival $
22 – Ramonville St. Agne, FR @ Le Bikini
24 – San Mauro Pascoli, IT @ Acieloaperto Festival #
25 – Turin, IT @ TOdays Festival
27 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg # [SOLD OUT]
28 – Utecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg #
30 – London, UK @ 02 Forum Kentish Town # [SOLD OUT]
31 – Wiltshire, UK @ End of the Road Festival
September
2 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall #
3 – Birmingham, UK @ Moseley Folk Festival
5 – Manchester, UK @ The Bridgewater Hall #
6 – Belfast, UK @ Mandela Hall+
8 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre + [SOLD OUT]
9 – Cork, IE @ Cork Opera House +
25 – Wichita, KS @ Wave
26 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom *
28 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom *
29 – Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater @ Waterloo Park *
October
1 – Albuquerque, NM @ Kiva Auditorium *
3 – Scottsdale, AZ @ Scottsdale Civic Center East Bowl Stage *
4 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel *
5 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel *
6 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel *
8 – Monterey, CA @ Rebels & Renegades Festival
11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether *
13 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Arlington Theatre *
14 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre ^
16 – Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium *
17 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre ^
18 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre ^
20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Eccles Theater ^
22 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom ^
23 – Omaha, NE @ The Astro Theater ^
25 – Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theatre ^
26 – St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre ^
27 – Bentonville, AR @ The Momentary ^
December
2 – Wed. Dec. 6 – Riviera Maya, MX @ Sky Blue Sky (Hard Rock Hotel)
$ w/ Tré Burt
# w/ Courtney Marie Andrews
+ w/ Anna Miekie
* w/ My Brightest Diamond
^ w/ Nina Nastasia