Reviews
Ranked #38 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "This is Wilco at their most organic and instinctual...", 4 stars out of 5 - "The album consolidated Wilco's reputation as both the finest bar band in existence and a bunch of true sonic adventurers.", Ranked #2 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "An organic and intuitive record....Exhilarating - and we suspect even greater things are yet to come.", "Musically and lyrically, A GHOST IS BORN is translucent, weightless, supernatural, capable of drifting back and forth across rock'n'roll's state lines at will...", "With Longer and more Experimental Songs and Tighter, Almost Mccartney-Like Hooks...", 4 stars out of 5 - "GHOST is another engrossing, unorthodox record, rattling through styles as deftly and poetically as its chief architect sifts the jottings of his mind.", "Languid melodies run second to weird sound gestures, soft-rock murmur, and aural pocket lint....Tweedy doesn't sound any less sincere than he usually does..." - Grade: B, "Its kinetic power has grown over time....In its singlemindedness, its guitar solos, and its melodic anguish, there are heavy echoes of Neil Young...", "The Album's Gorgeous and Smirky Second Half Rewards Fans of Wilco's Country and Pop...", 5 stars out of 5 - "A GHOST IS BORN feels like a band learning to be spontaneous and unencumbered, and coming up with their most engaging album yet.", 3 stars out of 5 - "It's more confident, more coherent, yielding an all-enveloping warmth....Tweedy's songwriting has edged up a gear, too.", Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "Here they swerve into an equally shocking, poetic clarity...", "Rarely has a dose of maturity suited musicians the way it has Wilco....They have made their most audacious and riskiest record to date....It has sparkling moments galore." - Grade:B
