Jeff Tweedy is releasing a triple album. The Wilco frontman will share the 30-song Twilight Override on September 26 via dBpm. Tweedy has today released four new songs: “Enough,” “One Tiny Flower,” “Out in the Dark,” and “Stray Cats in Spain.” Listen to the tracks below.
Tweedy will support Twilight Override with a full-band tour of North America and Europe. The North American shows take place in October, and the European dates are scheduled for February. See Tweedy’s tour schedule below, and head here to see his imminent tour dates with Wilco.
Tweedy recorded Twilight Override—his follow-up to 2020’s Love Is the King—at his Chicago studio, the Loft. The album has contributions from James Elkington, Finom’s Sima Cunningham Macie Stewart, and Liam Kazar, along with Tweedy’s sons, Spencer and Sammy.
“When you choose to do creative things, you align yourself with something that other people call God,” Tweedy said in a press statement. “And when you align yourself with creation, you inherently take a side against destruction. You’re on the side of creation. And that does a lot to quell the impulse to destroy. Creativity eats darkness.”
Tweedy added: “Sort of an endless buffet these days—a bottomless basket of rock bottom. Which is, I guess, why I’ve been making so much stuff lately. That sense of decline is hard to ignore, and it must be at least a part of the shroud I’m trying to unwrap. The twilight of an empire seems like a good enough jumping-off point when one is jumping into the abyss.”
“‘Twilight’ sure is a pretty word, though,” he continued. “And the world is full of happy people in former empires, so maybe that’s not the only source of this dissonance. Whatever it is out there (or in there) squeezing this ennui into my day, it’s fucking overwhelming. It’s difficult to ignore. Twilight Override is my effort to overwhelm it right back. Here are the songs and sounds and voices and guitars and words that are an effort to let go of some of the heaviness and up the wattage on my own light. My effort to engulf this encroaching nighttime (nightmare) of the soul.”
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Twilight Override:
01 One Tiny Flower
02 Caught Up in the Past
03 Parking Lot
04 Forever Never Ends
05 Love Is for Love
06 Mirror
07 Secret Door
08 Betrayed
09 Sign of Life
10 Throwaway Lines
01 KC Rain (No Wonder)
02 Out in the Dark
03 Better Song
04 New Orleans
05 Over My Head (Everything Goes)
06 Western Clear Skies
07 Blank Baby
08 No One’s Moving On
09 Feel Free