How does your upcoming record, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, compare to the last Wilco-only record, 1999s Summerteeth?
JT: Wilco records all have changed significantly from one to the other, and that has translated into them all sounding transitional. Each time we really just try and make a record that we’re excited about, and that fits thematically together. Summerteeth is really ornamented and grand-sounding in a lot of places. That was probably to contrast a set of lyrics–meaning, the whole lyrical slant of the record–that was pretty raw emotionally. YHF is less of an effort to contrast and more of an effort to make a concurrent commentary with the lyrics.
