Loose Fur
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Performer: Loose FurEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-28
Music Label: Drag City
Soundtracks:
- Laminated Cat
- Elegant Transaction
- So Long
- You Were Wrong
- Liquidation Totale
- Chinese Apple
Music reviews of Loose Fur
Music Review: The genesis seed for YHF
Rating: 4 Stars
Maybe calling Loose Fur a supergroup is a bit reaching, especially since none of its participants, aside from maybe Jeff Tweedy, has actually helmed a major act in the traditional sense. In other words, Traveling Wilburys this ain't...which is probably a good thing, if truth be known. Yet like the Wilburys, there is a casual nay "loose" quality to the six songs on this album that are nothing if not charming and well arranged, with the three Tweedy sung compositions being the highlights.
What's more intriguing about this album is in hearing the stylistic seeds of what would become Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. As such, a song on the Loose Fur debut like "Laminated Cat" hails from an earlier YHF outtake called "Not For The Season," and while the Loose Fur debut was released in 2003, it was recorded in the summer of 2000 and, in fact, corresponds somewhat with the YHF sessions; to the point that both Jim O'Rourke and Glenn Kotche from the Loose Fur trio would end up replacing members of Wilco, with O'Rourke taking on a significant role as co-producer of YHF. Adding to the cross-pollenation, as producer and remixer, O'Rourke removed many of the previous contributions of other Wilco members so that several YHF songs would only feature the music of Tweedy, Kotche, and himself, i.e. Loose Fur.
All in all, though, this album stands on its own. Fun, interesting, and well worth the price of admission. But for those who hanker for the wonder that is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, this album stands as both a precursory and taster for what was already cooking in Jeff Tweedy's brain in the warmer months of 2000.
Description of Loose Fur
The debut album from this new supergroup comprised of WILCO's JEFF TWEEDY and GLENN KOTCHE, along with JIM O'ROURKE (now of SONIC YOUTH). A six-track, forty-minute blend of all kinds of music for all kinds of people, expertly crafted into some of the hottest pop sounds to hit the streets in years.As supergroups go, this one--featuring Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, and Glenn Kotche--is almost as good as Rockpile, on par with Blind Faith, and a whole lot better than Ciccone Youth. It's also a project that makes sonic sense, in a twain-shall-meet way. Wunderkind experimental guitarist-producer O'Rourke has been creating warped Americana since the late '90s, while on 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Tweedy and company finely deconstructed the alt-country rock they'd worked so hard to create in the first place. The two major problems that afflict projects of this sort--overindulgent twaddle and ill-suited explorations--surface here, but they only hold sway over a third of the album. The tunes that work the best are the Tweedy-fronted ones, especially "Laminated Cat" and "Chinese Apple," both of which are seven-plus minutes of gorgeously subtle guitar, weird background noises, poly-limbed percussion, and oblique lyrics delivered by a melodic-minded mumble mouth. --Mike McGonigal
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