Twilight Override Jeff Tweedy

• 1 One Tiny Flower 06:20
• 2 Caught Up In the Past 04:23
• 3 Parking Lot 03:53
• 4 Forever Never Ends 03:11
• 5 Love Is For Love 05:06
• 6 Mirror 03:38
• 7 Secret Door 03:14
• 8 Betrayed 03:52
• 9 Sign of Life 02:45
• 10 Throwaway Lines 03:02
• 11 KC Rain (No Wonder) 02:56
• 12 Out in the Dark 03:33
• 13 Better Song 03:33
• 14 New Orleans 04:36
• 15 Over My Head (Everything Goes) 03:47
• 16 Western Clear Skies 03:00
• 17 Blank Baby 02:54
• 18 No One's Moving On 04:16
• 19 Feel Free 07:07
• 20 Lou Reed Was My Babysitter 03:19
• 21 Amar Bharati 02:25
• 22 Wedding Cake 01:51
• 23 Stray Cats in Spain 03:03
• 24 Ain't It a Shame 03:47
• 25 Twilight Override 03:17
• 26 Too Real 03:36
• 27 This Is How It Ends 04:15
• 28 Saddest Eyes 03:19
• 29 Cry Baby Cry 04:02
• 30 Enough 03:35
• Total Runtime 01:51:35

Info for Twilight Override

Jeff Tweedy’s fifth solo album, Twilight Override, is a 30-track collection across three discs, showcasing his signature blend of wit, insight, and whimsy. Self-produced at The Loft in Chicago and engineered by longtime collaborators Tom Schick and Mark Greenberg, the album includes standout tracks from recent live sets like “Feel Free,” “Enough,” and “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter.”

The three chapters of Twilight Override stand alone, but together, they tell a story of the past, present and future. Each of today’s singles is picked from one of the discs comprising Twilight Override, offering a peek at the musical and thematic range to come.

When you choose to do creative things, you align yourself with something that other people call God. And when you align yourself with creation, you inherently take a side against destruction. You’re on the side of creation. And that does a lot to quell the impulse to destroy. Creativity eats darkness.

Sort of an endless buffet these days—a bottomless basket of rock bottom. Which is, I guess, why I’ve been making so much stuff lately. That sense of decline is hard to ignore, and it must be at least a part of the shroud I’m trying to unwrap. The twilight of an empire seems like a good enough jumping-off point when one is jumping into the abyss.

Twilight sure is a pretty word, though. And the world is full of happy people in former empires, so maybe that’s not the only source of this dissonance. Whatever it is out there (or in there) squeezing this ennui into my day, it’s fucking overwhelming. It’s difficult to ignore. Twilight Override is my effort to overwhelm it right back. Here are the songs and sounds and voices and guitars and words that are an effort to let go of some of the heaviness and up the wattage on my own light. My effort to engulf this encroaching nighttime (nightmare) of the soul. — Jeff Tweedy

While Tweedy did not intentionally plan out a cohesive narrative for the album, the connections between the songs became apparent after a few listens. “I’m not trying to imply that I had this all mapped out as a story,” he explains. “The way that this ended up falling together and being arranged—it does tell a story that I think I wanted to tell. That’s what a process does for me. This is why it sounded right to me in this order, aside from tempos and music.”

Album opener “One Tiny Flower” is a propulsive and whimsical tale of a man who trips over a flower and dies. The song’s coda hints at the choral group singing present throughout the album. On “Out In The Dark,” Tweedy reflects on the songwriting process via a story about a planet without a moon. “There is no spark beyond belief,” he sings, likening sparks to creativity. “Stray Cats in Spain” is one of the album’s most personal tracks. Tweedy comments, “The way the music all came together and sounds the way it does is better than I could have ever imagined. It sounds like mosaic and it smells like pomade.” Finally, today’s radio single, “Enough,” is Twilight Override’s contemplative closer, and according to Tweedy, “a summation.” “This is the light you’re working towards the whole record,” he says. “It is the light that just comes to terms with–okay, it’s never gonna be enough. It’s never gonna be fully okay. You’re never gonna completely fill yourself up with all this stuff you love. You’re endless, you’re deep, you’re insatiable…if you’re doing it right. Stop thinking so fucking much about things that you can’t control.”

Jeff Tweedy, guitar, vocals
Spencer Tweedy, drums
Sammy Tweedy, guitar, vocals
James Elkington, guitar, vocals
Sima Cunningham, vocals
Macie Stewart, keyboards, vocals
Liam Kazar, guitar, vocals

Recorded at The Loft in Chicago
Engineered and Mixed by Tom Schick with Jeff Tweedy
Engineering assistance by Mark Greenberg
Mastered by Stephen Marsh
Produced by Jeff Tweedy with Tom Schick

Jeffrey Scot “Jeff” Tweedy
(born August 25, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois, United States) is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, The Plebes changed their name to The Primitives in 1984, and subsequently to Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo garnered enough support to earn a record deal and to tour nationally. After releasing four albums, the band broke up in 1994 because of conflicts between Tweedy and Farrar. In 1994, Tweedy formed Wilco with John Stirratt, Max Johnston, and Ken Coomer. Wilco has released eight albums and found commercial success with their albums Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, Sky Blue Sky and Wilco (The Album). The band also released two collaboration albums with Billy Bragg and one with The Minus 5. Jeff Tweedy has been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, including Best Alternative Album for A Ghost Is Born. Tweedy has also participated in a number of side groups including Golden Smog and Loose Fur, has released a book of poems, and has released a DVD of solo performances. He was originally influenced by punk and country music, but has recently reflected more experimental themes in his music. Jeff is currently touring with his side project “Tweedy”.

This album contains no booklet.