Wilco, a new EP and two special concerts

It’s titled “Hot Sun Cool Shroud” and it’s the first EP in Wilco’s decades-long recording career: it was released these days, at the same time as Solid Sound, the festival that the band holds and curates every two years in North Adams, Massachusetts.
The EP contains six songs, two of which are instrumental, and owes its title to the first, “Hot Sun”: “It starts quite warm, like the heat during the day, has some instrumental pieces that are a bit rough and uncomfortable and ends with a refreshing breeze,” said leader Jeffe Tweedy.

“There are tracks on ‘Hot Sun Cool Shroud’ that are more aggressive and edgy than anything we’ve released lately, and a song about love that melts you like ice cream in a puddle of sugary soup. All the summer tunes, including hatched cicadas.”

The band played two songs, “Annihilation” and “Say you love me” in the second of the two concerts at Solid Sound, which took place last night, June 29th: for the occasion they also performed the entire “A ghost is born”, a disco published 20 years ago. In the concert on June 28, however, the band performed a setlist of “Deep cuts”, songs that are rare or never performed live, opening with “One Sunday morning”, a 12-minute song that closed their 2011 album “The whole love”.
The festival, which also featured Jason Isbell and Nick Lowe, concludes this evening with a solo concert by Jeff Tweedy.