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• Wilco announce their new album, Cousin, available worldwide September 29th on dBpm Records, and present its lead single, Evicted. Cousin will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally, and is available for pre-order now. This will be the first release under dBpm Records new distribution arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment. The band will tour Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Mexico and the United States surrounding the albums release.

  Im cousin to the world, frontman Jeff Tweedy confesses. I dont feel like Im a blood relation, but maybe Im a cousin by marriage. Produced by Welsh artist Cate Le Bon, Cousin marks the first time Wilco have worked with an outside producer since Jim ORourkes involvement with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Sky Blue Sky. Le Bons 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 Wilcos 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.

  Longtime admirers of each others work, Wilco and Le Bon first met at the bands Solid Sound Festival in 2019, where they formed an immediate connection, inspiring Tweedy to invite Le Bon to the bands famed Chicago studio, The Loft, in 2022 to work on Cousin. Le Bon pushed the band to take risks, repurposing Wilcos established strengths and challenging them to oppose habits all the while maintaining what has, for the last thirty years, defined Wilco as a band, their fearlessness, made possible by musical virtuosity and the secret language only a family shares. The amazing thing about Wilco is they can be anything, Le Bon says. They’re so mercurial, and theres this thread of authenticity that flows through everything they do, whatever the genre, whatever the feel of the record. There arent many bands who are able to, this deep into a successful career, successfully change things up.

  Le Bon arrived in Chicago to rebuild: to create a scaffold with Glenn Kotches architectural drumming and John Stirratts contrapuntal bass lines; a scene with Mikael Jorgensens cold, lonesome synths, Pat Sansones plaintive piano work, and guest instrumentalist Euan Hinshelwoods mangled saxophones; and a topographic pattern out of Tweedys electric guitar bends and Nels Clines textural explosions, which Le Bon describes as the weather, to carve a path for Tweedys yearning lyrics.

• Artist: Wilco Label: dBpm Records Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Indie Rock

• A1 Infinite Surprise
  A2 Ten Dead
  A3 Levee
  A4 Evicted
  A5 Sunlight Ends
  B1 A Bowl And A Pudding
  B2 Cousin
  B3 Pittsburgh
  B4 Soldier Child
  B5 Meant To Be