Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override

"At 58, at the height of his stature and creative ability, he remains irritatingly ambivalent and unknowable and funny and compelling in equal measure. Come to think of it, the album Twilight Override resembles most is Bob Dylan's 1970 contract-breaker-panic-attack double LP, Self Portrait-widely derided at the time but profoundly hilarious, melancholy, and rewarding-which, at 24 songs, wandered between weird new compositions and obscure covers."

"Tweedy. The Randy Newman of maximalism-thrilled to offload the dumptruck of his mind at any interval, arguably with no editing-but of course this one is on us, having reveled in the long-form permissiveness of Being There and Summerteeth and the double disc Tweedy-family-band album Sukierae, and yes, even the sanctified Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with its recent reissue-11 different versions sequenced different ways, on different mixing boards, all telling a different story about a great album that was itself probably a couple of tracks too long."

Twilight Override is a 30-song solo triple album that weaves hippie-jazz-pop and decades of Jeff Tweedy's melodic sensibility into strange, beautiful, and threadbare originals. At 58, Tweedy displays ambivalence, unknowability, humor, and compelling melodic gifts. The album's generous length and indulgent sequencing evoke Bob Dylan's 1970 Self Portrait and align with Tweedy's history of long-form projects such as Being There, Summerteeth, Sukierae, and the reissued Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The record reads as maximalist, dumptruck-offloading songwriting—unapologetically overflowing with ideas, occasional rough edges, and a sense of revelatory indulgence.

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