On Sky Blue Sky, Wilco goes back to basics, and Tweedy's excellent vocals recall Don Henley in his prime  Full text...

Sky Blue-Eyed Soul.  Full text...

The one failure with the album, if it is truly a failure, is that Sky Blue Sky is largely a fans album for Wilco. If you're not a fan of Wilco's lo-fi sound, there really isn't too much here to attract you. There are bouts of rock-n-roll and blues, but overall its the sound that Tweedy and co. have perfected. But even if you aren't a fan, give this a shot. It does not have the poppiness of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but it isnt the 10 minute long epic-filled A Ghost is Born.  Full text...

Wilco offers surprise that really is one.  Full text...

Sky Blue Sky sounds like a return to alt-country. The songs are generally mellow, often recalling the woody and soulful folk of the Band. After being addicted at various times to alcohol and painkillers, and enduring numerous scraps with old record labels and long-departed bandmates, Tweedy’s new contentment shines through on What Light and On and On and On.   Full text...

There's no noise, none of the spazzed-out distortion of the last few Wilco records: It's peaceful on the surface, demented underneath.  Full text...

Though it may not fit comfortably alongside any other albums in Wilco's catalogue, Sky Blue Sky is further confirmation that, even at their most retro, they're among contemporary pop music's most vital acts.  Full text...

This new record finds the band settling back into a comfortable place. Instead of reaching for the artistic pinnacles of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost is Born, Jeff Tweedy and company have crafted an album that is soft, steady and beautiful, yet deeper than first impressions reveal.  Full text...

Sky Blue Sky, with all its paleness and patience on the surface, is a slow rub. The music lathers the inner ear — thick — before absorbing, penetrating. It makes one vacant. Finally, its components fill the sinkhole at your center and reveal it as something both special and severe.  Full text...

Sky Blue Sky is the first Wilco album you can buy in Starbucks, it’s a little too on the nose for comfort.  Full text...

On its own terms, Sky Blue Sky succeeds: it's tender, poignant and sumptuously textured, occasionally jolted into fiery life by flaring guitar passages redolent of Neil Young or Television. But anyone who thought Wilco were interested in the future of Americana will be profoundly disappointed.   Full text...

The arrangements draw on early Seventies influences, abandoning the exploratory tone of recent Wilco albums for more straightforward country-rock settings which recall the likes of Little Feat, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt and The Allman Brothers Band. It's a pleasant enough ride.  Full text...

Tweedy and co's surprisingly soft-rock therapy.  Full text...

An album of unapologetic straightforwardness, Sky Blue Sky nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise. Never has the band sounded more passive, from the direct and domestic nature of Tweedy's lyrics, to the soft-rock-plus-solos format (already hinted at on Ghost's "At Least That's What You Said" and "Hell Is Chrome") that most of its songs adhere to.  Full text...