Pitchfork

Late last month, Wilco was among bands performing at the annual Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans. The more contemplative side of the band evidenced on latest album Sky Blue Sky was probably a welcome breather there next to acts like Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, and Fall Out Boy. New Orleans' Static Television made this video of a particularly hirsute Jeff Tweedy & co. playing a nuanced version of Sky Blue Sky's "You Are My Face". Tweedy looks incongruously at ease singing lyrics like, "When everybody's feeling all alone, can't tell you who I am," amid a peal of (yes, Sky Blue haters) feedback. The last verse, like the album's American Beauty-esque "What Light", seems to celebrate the communal power of music-- pretty good thematic fodder for a big festival, anyway. The rest of the band often appear here as colored blobs, which is a nice effect even if it belies the tune's directness.

[original track from Sky Blue Sky; out now on Nonesuch]