Loose Fur

Rolling Stone - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Full of found sounds and atmospheric haziness but infused with a whimsical, free-flowing vibe you'd expect from laid-back indie-rockers just doing their thing....Plenty of good ideas here..." Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The effect is brilliant. You can look at it two ways: as a document of shifting tensions between songform and skronk....Or as the discovery of the common ground between songwriters and experimentalists..." Magnet - "...Lazily brilliant, LOOSE FUR should silence anyone who still views Wilco's arty chops as dilettante-ish..." Entertainment Weekly - "...It's art rock in overalls....Some nice moments..." - Rating: B The Wire - "...[The] hardest rockin' of his Drag City/Domino release....Tweedy is wistful and romantic, his closed-lipped voice whispering of seasons and lovers and country paths. By contrast, O'Rourke is witty and urbane..." Mojo - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Endearing..." Rolling Stone (2/6/03, p.60) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Full of found sounds and atmospheric haziness but infused with a whimsical, free-flowing vibe you'd expect from laid-back indie-rockers just doing their thing....Plenty of good ideas here..." Mojo (3/03, p.103) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Endearing..." The Wire (1/03, p.68-9) - "...[The] hardest rockin' of his Drag City/Domino release....Tweedy is wistful and romantic, his closed-lipped voice whispering of seasons and lovers and country paths. By contrast, O'Rourke is witty and urbane..." Entertainment Weekly (2/7/03, p.82) - "...It's art rock in overalls....Some nice moments..." - Rating: B Magnet (1/03, p.92) - "...Lazily brilliant, LOOSE FUR should silence anyone who still views Wilco's arty chops as dilettante-ish..." Uncut (2/03, p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The effect is brilliant. You can look at it two ways: as a document of shifting tensions between songform and skronk....Or as the discovery of the common ground between songwriters and experimentalists..."

Loose Fur is a collaboration between Jim O'Rourke, Glen Kotche and Wilco songwriter Jeff Tweedy. This is in fact the third collaboration between Tweedy and O'Rourke following on from O'Rourke's production duties on Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' and Tweedy's work on O'Rourke's album 'Insignificance'. Actually recorded prior to both of these albums it blurs the line between Tweedy's more traditional songwriting and O'Rourke's avante-garde tendencies.|