How Dark It Can Be

Wilco “Dawned On Me”

Jeff Tweedy has a lot of strengths as a songwriter, but I’m very partial to his gift for writing sweet love songs within the context of a long term relationship. It’s easy to find a lot of good songs about new love or love that is broken and ending, but Tweedy’s tunes about rediscovering or reaffirming affection after years of ups and downs and prosaic routines is pretty inspiring. I’m not too crazy about The Whole Love at the moment – it’s certainly not a bad record, but most of it doesn’t hold my interest – “Dawned On Me” hits my sweet spot basically by cross-breeding the tone of their classic “I’m Always In Love” with that one hit by Supergrass.

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