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WILCO - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago
| CokeMachineGlow | | If Wilco’s studio catalogue has one prevailing flaw, it’s that, in spite of all their feats of textural ingenuity and lyrical versatility, their records are just no fun at all. No matter what the musical context may be, the band works best when Jeff Tweedy is exorcising his demons, be they in the form of domestic abuse, chemical dependency, spoiled patriotism, or (usually) just plain old loneliness....full text |
| | PasteMagazine | | Wilco’s set a way-high bar with its live performances, of which there are roughly 10 million bootlegs, many quite good. So is its first official live CD a proper initiation for newcomers, and do longtime Wilco fans really need another show on their hard drives? Aside from being a fine introduction for perverse coworkers who haven’t even heard of Wilco, Kicking Television is a particularly awesome recording, from the grace notes and righteous rage of 1996’s “Misunderstood” to the bigger, gladder swagger of “Late Greats” from 2004’s A Ghost is Born....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | A live album from Wilco is like a postcard home from a wayward child. A mere snapshot of activity before their seemingly constantly state of flux carries them off again, rearranging band members, shunning their given genres and growing facial hair. Kicking Television: Live In Chicago is composed of tracks recorded over four nights at The Vic Theatre, a venue packed with rapturous and rabid Wilco fans hollering and whooping in the right (and occasionally wrong) places. The mood is buoyant, the banter is sporadic and the outcome is patchy, if not mostly enjoyable....full text |
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