Wilco Announces New Album & Tour [Dates, VIP & Ticket Info]

Wilco has announced their follow-up to their 2016 album, Schmilco, Ode to Joy.

Ode to Joy will be their 11th album and will be released on October 4. The band will preview it with their lead single, “Love Is Everywhere (Beware).”

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The tracks started with a collaboration between Jeff Tweedy and drummer Glenn Kotche. The other four members created their own parts from there.

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, Kotche’s beats were “meant to mimic the movement of marching – a powerful act utilized on both sides of the authoritarian wall.”

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Tweedy added that the end product is “really big, big folk songs, these monolithic, brutal structures that these delicate feelings are hung on.”

His statement relates to “Love Is Everywhere (Beware),” an acoustic-driven song similar to “She’s a Jar” from their 1999 album Summerteeth.

“There must be more love than hate, right?” Tweedy said. “I’m not always positive we can be so sure. In any case, I’m starting to feel like being confident in that equation isn’t always the best motivation for me to be my best self – it can kind of let me off the hook a little bit when I think I should be striving to contribute more love outside of my comfortable sphere of family and friends. So…I guess the song is sort of a warning to myself that yes, Love is everywhere, but also beware! I can’t let that feeling absolve me of my duty to create more.”

Following the release of their new album, the band will start their North American tour in support of Ode to Joy, starting October 8.