From the C-J (Wilco: Wow!):
And yet each of Wilco's studio albums has charted higher than the
last, with 2007's "Sky Blue Sky" debuting at No. 4 on Billboard's album
charts. Wilco's seventh studio album, "Wilco (the album)," was released
today, but overeager fans pirated it weeks ago and it will still almost
certainly land in the Top 10.How
did this happen? Your guess is as good as anyone's, but every once in a
while a band finds critical and commercial success despite the odds.
This decade has two, Radiohead being the other. The difference between
the bands, however, is that you actually want to listen to Wilco as opposed to feeling that you should listen to Radiohead. So if Wilco is the American Radiohead, we got the better of the deal.
