Love is the King
| Jeff Tweedy
Love is the King
Love Is the King is the fourth solo studio album by American musician Jeff Tweedy. It was released on October 23, 2020 via dBpm Records. Recording sessions took place at the Loft in Chicago during lockdown in April 2020 after Wilco's tour dates were cancelled due to COVID-19. Production was handled by Tom Schick and Tweedy himself. It features contributions from his sons Spencer and Sam. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
the Wilco frontman’s response to the pandemic is a mellow, easygoing collection of songs stressing the importance of human connection.
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Consequence of Sound
The Wilco frontman's new record is the work of a songwriter with clear eyes and a full heart.
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The Fire Note
Likely this is another song celebrating the love and care he’s found in his family, but in a way it’s also about the gift of music and those things in life that sustain us even in the most challenging of times. In this season, to be sure, Love Is The King is one of those things.
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Paste Magazine
Singer’s latest solo effort is wittier and more expansive than its predecessors.
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Loud and Quiet
A record to mature over time rather than instant classic, Love Is The King might just prove an equally reassuring presence as the world stumbles towards some sort of elusive normality during these uncertain times.
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Under the Radar Magazine
He could be as in awe of his own proliferation as we all are, but regardless, the cornucopia that began its curve two autumns ago has delivered an abundance of gifts. It’s a lot to be blessed with.
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Beats Per Minute
Love Is The King is a series of family snapshots, poetic diary entries of compassion; a meditation on what it means to retreat with those we can rely on when we need them. In that, it’s a comforting hug in times of no touching. Hey, all will be well. We’ll get through this. Maybe that makes me sound like a dad, but really, there’s worse things I could be.
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All Music
Love Is the King is his very personal reaction to an increasingly difficult time in America's history. He doesn't pretend to have answers, yet this music is his own kind of therapy, recognizing his emotions and working through them before they devour him, and he makes both the process and the challenges well worth hearing.
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mxdwn Music
Love Is The King is a good record that could become great if some of the harsher tones were shaved down or given lyrics to support them better.
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Sputnik Music
Perhaps under different circumstances Love Is The King would be more vulnerable to criticism for its lack of diversity and experimentation, but right now, it resides at a perfect intersection of lifeline-like consistency and volatile external circumstances. Grab hold of Tweedy’s never-ending life’s work and feel the love.
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Let it Happen
Love Is The King is an enjoyable album, it’s a low-key folk-rock journey that carries you through waves of melancholy whilst intermittently providing glistens of hope.
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meaww
In a nutshell, Tweedy has balanced the album and penned a beautifully honest ode to love and hope. He has documented a time in history through the personal lens of shared human experience.
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Top 100 Canadian Blog
Love Is The King isn't a thick and rich album, in the Wilco style. It's lighter, more light-hearted, easily-digested as opposed to the sonically dense group material. However, that doesn't make it any less rewarding, and offers a more accessible way to enjoy Tweedy.
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Chicago Tribune
For a record that can at times be so dark, it’s not depressing. If anything, in Tweedy’s embracing the darkness that surrounds him, and us, he emerges more hopeful than before. Perhaps, as Tweedy emphasizes with the record title, love indeed is the king.
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Edinboro Now
“Love Is The King” is an expertly executed homemade album that is perfectly easy to listen to. If you are not already quarantining with (and thus, growing weary of) your family, this album will make you want to give them a call.
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The Young Folks
Jeff Tweedy Offers a Sullen Warmth on “Love Is The King”.
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Under the Radar Magazine
Comforting country songs paint vivid scenes of escapism. Songs of separation become eulogies to the love he is apart from. He sings of the world falling apart and whistles a solo. Joy against sorrow.
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No More Workhorse
It’s a bit like a Wilco album done on acoustic (mostly) guitars, which shouldn’t work but it DOES. Jeff Tweedy’s solo albums are, in their own way, as strong as the Wilco albums.
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Secret Meeting
Love is The King may be classed as a solo album, but its connection with others goes far deeper than collaboration. He buries himself in the universal truths that bind us all, and reminds us why he is one of the finest writers around.
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