| · All-star lineup includes former Young Fresh Fellow Scott McCaughey, along with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and the Posies’ Ken Stringfellow.
I want to know how so many pop stalwarts can collaborate on one album without tripping drunkenly all over one another? The Minus 5’s Down With Wilco is one of those records that sounds like it was cooked up under the influence of alcohol by a sprawling collective of close friends. In the capable hands of The Minus 5’s Scott McCaughey and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, this is a positive thing – the record balances precariously between pretty harmonies and British Invasion hooks, propped up by Peter Buck, Ken Stringfellow et al on a variety of instruments.
Clever lyrics abound throughout, but the cleverest of all bookend the proceedings. "Days of Wine and Booze" is a hallucinatory, inebriated opener, while closer "Dear Employer (The Reason I Quit)," offers a bitter salve for the working wounded.
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