Jeff Tweedy has announced a new solo album. WARM is out November 30 via dBpm. It was produced and recorded entirely by Tweedy at his Chicago studio, the Loft, with his usual collaborators: his son Spencer Tweedy, Glenn Kotche, and Tom Schick. Tweedy has shared the project’s first single “Some Birds,” accompanied by a visual directed by Seth Henrikson. Watch the video and find the LP’s cover art below. The liner notes for WARM were written by George Saunders. (Tweedy previously voiced a character for Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo audiobook.) Read Saunders’ liner notes at The New Yorker.
In a statement, Jeff Tweedy describes “Some Birds” as being “like a lot of songs on WARM, being a confrontation between self and shadow self simultaneously feeling I’m to blame and not to blame, present and gone, and utterly confused, but determined to hold someone accountable.”
The Wilco frontman is currently on a run of solo dates and recently announced his new book Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc. His new album follows the 2017 acoustic collection Together at Last. Wilco’s last album was 2016’s Schmilco.
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2015 podcast “A Conversation With Jeff Tweedy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.”
