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Schmilco
Rock · 2016 · 12 tracks · 36m

Schmilco

Wilco

Twelve tracks of dry, acoustic-led folk-rock. Intimate and slightly prickly, it trades grand gestures for small, strange, and beautifully frayed details.

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It’s Wilco unplugged, but with all the weird, prickly edges still intact.

A quiet, prickly introspection that feels like looking through a dusty window at your own past.

Schmilco · vs · Wilco
Stripped Back+2.0σ

The production is built around stripped back than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 36m
01
Normal American Kids
2:48
02
If I Ever Was a Child
2:56
03
Cry All Day
4:17
04
Common Sense
3:25
05
Nope
3:03
06
Someone to Lose
3:20
07
Happiness
3:00
08
Quarters
2:50
09
Locator
2:18
10
Shrug and Destroy
2:53
11
We Aren’t the World (Safety Girl)
2:54
12
Just Say Goodbye
2:48
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring, dissonant guitar stabs that disrupt the gentle folk strumming on Common Sense.
The way the drums enter with a dry, papery thud on If I Ever Was a Child.
The sudden, sharp rhythmic shifts in Locator that break the album's otherwise pastoral flow.
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