About this item

Following Wilco’s acclaimed 2023 album Cousin, Wilco revisited unfinished material from these sessions to craft ‘Hot Sun Cool Shroud’. Collaborating again with engineering mixer Tom Schick, the band crafted six tracks that expand on the sound of Cousin. According to Jeff Tweedy, they have “a summertime-after-dark kind of feeling. It starts off pretty hot, like heat during the day, has some instrumentals on it that are a little agitated and uncomfortable, and ends with a cooling breeze.” 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A superb set of abstractions of some of the vibe and *some* of the outtakes of the sessions for 'Cousin'. Here we get the pieces stretched into balmy, avant country and jagged pseudo-thrash ('Livid') before melting into a warm puddle towards the end of the EP. Lovely stuff.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Hot Sun
2. Livid
3. Ice Cream
Side B
4. Annihilation
5. Inside The Bell Bones
6. Say You Love Me