new Wilco album now streaming

I'm listening to the upcoming Wilco release Sky Blue Sky, which is streaming now at their site (linked above) and all I can say is that it's transcendent. This record seems to be the culmination of everything they've been working towards over the last two records and subsequent tours. Tweedy et al have crafted a perfect, seemless marriage of folk, country, rock, avant garde, and pop. It's not any of those things; it just is.

Nels Cline's playing is off tha heezy. He creates moments of true beauty here. Yesterday I was in the grocery store listening to his album New Monastery: a View into the Music of Andrew Hill (Cryptogramophone, 2006) on my iPod - he's replacing Bill Frisell as my favorite guitarist.