Wilco - Star WarsWilco presents 'Star Wars', the Grammy award winning band's ninth studio album and its first since 2011's 'The Whole Love'. The new album was recorded at the band's Chicago loft and features 11 original Wilco penned tunes. If an unlikely predominant influence on 'The Whole Love' was Nick Lowe's bittersweet new wave, 'Stars Wars' brings together the unfamiliar but similarly adventurous bedfellows of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, the spacier end

and has a best-selling

drugged-up

guest shots by Q-Tip and Biz Markie

equally adept at heady drones or twinkling solos

Every artist has a piece of work that niggles them‰ÛÓsomething that they wish they could redo

The key to 'Still''s emotional resonance is a set of gripping new Thompson compositions rich with his signature mix of trenchant insight

Like the best sides that percolated up from the Bronx

As he himself puts it

'Foolin' Around' is a bonkers car-crash of influences

Everything and yet everything woven so subtly into the presentation leaves you unaware that you have been modulated upon

It was produced by Ross Orton

proper release to feature original vocalist Malcolm Mooney