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Schmilco by Wilco
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When Wilco surprise-dropped last year’s Star Wars album, the band said it already had another full-length ready to go. Today they’ve confirmed that album is called Schmilco (possibly a reference to Harry Nilsson’s 1971 release Nilsson Schmilsson). In announcing Schmilco the band said the new album is mostly acoustic and explores self-identity and public perceptions of Wilco. “I think this record is ‘joyously negative’,” Tweedy said. “It’s sad in a lot of ways but not in any that reach a conclusion of doom or hopelessness. I just had a lot of fun being sour about the things that upset me.”