The Magnificent Defeat's proof that, no matter how much we want to pigeonhole Bennett, he's finally able to move on from the Wilco split.  Full text...

It’s an album fairly soaked in acrimony, regret and loss, though it’s hardly doom and gloom.  Full text...

Jay "ex-Wilco" Bennett apparently had to narrow down 70 songs to 14 to fit on this album. So should be really good, right? Well, no. His voice doesn't do him an awful lot of favours on many of the tracks: it varies from good to downright awful.  Full text...

As a producer, Bennett had always proved his worth, but until The Magnificent Defeat, his own material had left me cold. I love to be proven wrong, or is that right, or…whatever.   Full text...