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Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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May 27, 2022An inoffensive recycling of wilco least interesting qualities . It's 22 songs are an oxymoron of being extremely long but so homogeneous it feels fleeting. Wilco can never make anything unlistenable but with this one they succed at being just boring.
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Apr 28, 2023Wilco have more often than not been on the sleepy side but "Cruel Country" takes things to another level. "Country Song Upside-Down" is a great song. The rest of the album was a bit of a slog even with repeated listens. For me it was 3 minutes of greatness and 74 minutes of sleepy alt country. It failed to engage me and ultimately bored me.
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The WireJul 13, 2022Some will find Cruel Country monotonous; the patient however will be rewarded with an abundance of thoughtful, delicate, often brutally plaintive songcraft. [Aug 2022, p.60]
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Jun 6, 2022“Cruel Country” captures a band wholly secure in its status; it does a handful of things very well, and does those things repeatedly, with few deviations.
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Jun 1, 2022Ultimately, however, the highs triumph over the occasional coasting, even if it's hard to entirely shake off the feeling that there's a killer 12 or 14 track record to top off Wilco's return to studio form on 2019's Ode to Joy lurking amongst this bumper crop of Jeff Tweedy’s songs and Wilco’s telepathic dynamics.