1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at b. 3 00:00:13,213 --> 00:00:14,653 Speaker 2: I'm a lasting. 4 00:00:15,893 --> 00:00:22,613 Speaker 3: Lines, swings, you want, stands a chance, get it. Cut 5 00:00:22,773 --> 00:00:28,133 Speaker 3: Up in the Past, there's not crowd. 6 00:00:54,053 --> 00:00:56,973 Speaker 2: That is Jeff Tweety. The song is called caught Up 7 00:00:57,053 --> 00:01:00,133 Speaker 2: in the Past. He's got a new album called Twilight Override. 8 00:01:00,213 --> 00:01:02,453 Speaker 2: James Irwin has been listening and is with us this morning. 9 00:01:02,493 --> 00:01:03,933 Speaker 2: Hey James, I have been looking. 10 00:01:04,013 --> 00:01:07,013 Speaker 3: Hi Jack, I've been swarming, not just listening. I've been 11 00:01:07,093 --> 00:01:11,293 Speaker 3: swimming in this new Jeff Tweety triple album, Twilight over Right, 12 00:01:11,853 --> 00:01:14,893 Speaker 3: And I mean it's a deeply human masterpiece. Thirty tracks, 13 00:01:15,173 --> 00:01:18,213 Speaker 3: three discs, one big emotional swing at the darkness. I 14 00:01:18,253 --> 00:01:20,053 Speaker 3: mean off the top of your head, Jack, I don't 15 00:01:20,053 --> 00:01:22,373 Speaker 3: know if you can think of any thirty track albums 16 00:01:22,373 --> 00:01:25,093 Speaker 3: that are not you know, not solid gold compilation hits. 17 00:01:25,373 --> 00:01:26,813 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sitting here. 18 00:01:28,453 --> 00:01:31,453 Speaker 3: I'm thinking the White album and Beatles' heads will either 19 00:01:31,493 --> 00:01:33,653 Speaker 3: be texting in going yeah it's only twenty eight out, 20 00:01:33,733 --> 00:01:37,213 Speaker 3: you know, or thirty two maybe one at home. I 21 00:01:37,293 --> 00:01:39,893 Speaker 3: know the minute Man's classic double Nickel on the Dime. 22 00:01:41,853 --> 00:01:44,293 Speaker 3: This this album is it the album to save humanity? 23 00:01:44,453 --> 00:01:47,133 Speaker 3: Possibly not, but it's the kind of album that asks 24 00:01:47,133 --> 00:01:50,773 Speaker 3: you to kind of slow down, unplug, spend some time. 25 00:01:51,493 --> 00:01:53,693 Speaker 3: You don't just throw this one on when you're you know, 26 00:01:53,813 --> 00:01:56,893 Speaker 3: making toast all all the kids lunches, your book time 27 00:01:56,973 --> 00:01:59,733 Speaker 3: with it, like it's like that special family dinner. This 28 00:02:00,093 --> 00:02:02,853 Speaker 3: almost needs the old proper sit down with the stereo, 29 00:02:03,173 --> 00:02:05,933 Speaker 3: the not the mono bluetooth speaker in the corner, but 30 00:02:06,053 --> 00:02:08,053 Speaker 3: the old school get it set up in the garage 31 00:02:08,093 --> 00:02:11,773 Speaker 3: with that warmth and hum. Tweedy's gone big here and 32 00:02:11,933 --> 00:02:15,173 Speaker 3: you can really feel the effort. It's not just quantity, 33 00:02:15,413 --> 00:02:18,173 Speaker 3: it's quality, and it's kind of loaded up with the motion. 34 00:02:18,653 --> 00:02:21,973 Speaker 3: Right from the very first track, Tiny Flower, Wilco lovers 35 00:02:22,173 --> 00:02:27,053 Speaker 3: are going to recognize that familiar acoustic glow. It's glorious 36 00:02:27,533 --> 00:02:31,133 Speaker 3: experimental folk and in a way, you know, thirty tracks 37 00:02:31,173 --> 00:02:33,373 Speaker 3: that kind of feels like it's a vault clearing mission. 38 00:02:33,733 --> 00:02:36,493 Speaker 3: But it's not the old dusty vault left over kind 39 00:02:36,493 --> 00:02:39,333 Speaker 3: of way. This is already fresh, it's alive, it's overflowing. 40 00:02:39,893 --> 00:02:42,333 Speaker 3: He's giving us everything all in one hit, warts and all, 41 00:02:43,093 --> 00:02:45,253 Speaker 3: instead of kind of you know, like the Princess of State. 42 00:02:45,293 --> 00:02:48,413 Speaker 3: They drip feeted over ten or twenty years. This is 43 00:02:48,493 --> 00:02:51,813 Speaker 3: almost like going to the opshop finding a Scorsese film 44 00:02:52,013 --> 00:02:55,333 Speaker 3: Directors Cut on DVD and then going home and watching 45 00:02:55,373 --> 00:02:57,773 Speaker 3: all the outtakes and the extras and the you know 46 00:02:57,973 --> 00:03:02,653 Speaker 3: and the alternative you know cuts. Tweety's main gig is 47 00:03:02,653 --> 00:03:05,933 Speaker 3: a lot of people know is fronting the band Wilco, 48 00:03:06,493 --> 00:03:10,293 Speaker 3: the guy behind seminal albums Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. So he's 49 00:03:10,533 --> 00:03:13,813 Speaker 3: I mean straight away, he's no strangers. He huge ideas. 50 00:03:14,333 --> 00:03:17,013 Speaker 3: But this is I would say, is his most ambitious 51 00:03:17,053 --> 00:03:20,653 Speaker 3: solo project yet and it's not. At first, I was 52 00:03:20,693 --> 00:03:22,253 Speaker 3: worried when it was thirty tracks. I was like, Oh, 53 00:03:22,333 --> 00:03:24,373 Speaker 3: this is just gonna be one of those rock star flecks. 54 00:03:24,893 --> 00:03:27,693 Speaker 3: But it's not. It's a it's a real musical lifeline 55 00:03:27,733 --> 00:03:30,453 Speaker 3: he's given us here. He recorded it all at his 56 00:03:30,733 --> 00:03:33,653 Speaker 3: at his Chicago studio, The Loft, with a band that 57 00:03:33,773 --> 00:03:36,973 Speaker 3: includes his son Spencer and Sammy. So it's a big 58 00:03:37,013 --> 00:03:39,773 Speaker 3: old family affair and you can kind of feel that 59 00:03:39,973 --> 00:03:43,333 Speaker 3: in the closeness and all the harmonies and those fuzzy 60 00:03:43,413 --> 00:03:46,933 Speaker 3: guitar licks and the whispered lyrics, and in a way 61 00:03:47,053 --> 00:03:49,453 Speaker 3: it has parallels to our own Neil Finn and his 62 00:03:49,613 --> 00:03:51,653 Speaker 3: lads Limb and el Roy here and Alta. 63 00:03:53,013 --> 00:03:53,453 Speaker 2: He's got that. 64 00:03:54,053 --> 00:03:56,293 Speaker 3: I feel like there's that same spirit of, you know, 65 00:03:56,493 --> 00:03:59,013 Speaker 3: keeping it all close, keeping it family, keeping a musical. 66 00:04:00,253 --> 00:04:02,973 Speaker 3: Disc one eases you in ever so gently. It's all 67 00:04:03,013 --> 00:04:08,333 Speaker 3: acoustic textures, lyrical flashbacks, and it's got the signature tweedy 68 00:04:08,533 --> 00:04:11,893 Speaker 3: vocal half whisper, half sort of shrug. It's really intimate, 69 00:04:12,333 --> 00:04:14,053 Speaker 3: and I feel like he's playing in my lounge when 70 00:04:14,093 --> 00:04:16,613 Speaker 3: I sit there and listen to it. This two starters 71 00:04:16,733 --> 00:04:19,253 Speaker 3: starts to stretch it out a bit more. The arrangements 72 00:04:19,293 --> 00:04:23,053 Speaker 3: get a bit bolder. There's electric guitars, lad percussion, there's 73 00:04:23,133 --> 00:04:25,933 Speaker 3: fiddle and some synse. There's a track that I think 74 00:04:25,933 --> 00:04:27,773 Speaker 3: we're going to hear at the end called feel Free, 75 00:04:27,813 --> 00:04:30,533 Speaker 3: which I just think is gorgeous. It really stands out. 76 00:04:30,653 --> 00:04:33,733 Speaker 3: It's a slow building seven minute mantra that just is 77 00:04:33,813 --> 00:04:37,133 Speaker 3: kind of like a love letter to music, to creativity. 78 00:04:37,453 --> 00:04:40,333 Speaker 3: It's gorgeous. And then we get into buy disc three. 79 00:04:40,773 --> 00:04:43,693 Speaker 3: Things start to get a little bit wild, but not crazy. 80 00:04:44,093 --> 00:04:46,213 Speaker 3: He's got The first track of this three is called 81 00:04:46,253 --> 00:04:49,133 Speaker 3: lou Reed was my babysitter. I don't think he was. 82 00:04:49,173 --> 00:04:50,853 Speaker 3: I think it's part homage, part sort. 83 00:04:50,733 --> 00:04:51,973 Speaker 2: Of feed connection. 84 00:04:52,693 --> 00:04:56,533 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's a velvet underground style sort of jam. 85 00:04:57,453 --> 00:04:59,653 Speaker 3: And there's another track on disc three that I love. 86 00:04:59,773 --> 00:05:03,253 Speaker 3: Twilight Override is just quietly devastating. It's just got something 87 00:05:03,293 --> 00:05:06,173 Speaker 3: about it that's just grabbing me. Lyrically. Tweety's all over 88 00:05:06,213 --> 00:05:08,333 Speaker 3: the place. He's like a fifty eight year old in 89 00:05:08,413 --> 00:05:11,293 Speaker 3: that post midlife crisis. So he's done it all. He's 90 00:05:11,333 --> 00:05:14,653 Speaker 3: got rid of the lifestyle, lifestyle with the rock star lifestyle. 91 00:05:15,733 --> 00:05:18,893 Speaker 3: It's there's memories, there's middle aged weirdness, there's the joy 92 00:05:18,933 --> 00:05:20,813 Speaker 3: of just making music with the people he loves, and 93 00:05:20,933 --> 00:05:23,453 Speaker 3: you can really feel it. You can hear a closeness 94 00:05:23,493 --> 00:05:26,133 Speaker 3: in the mix. The harmonies are warm, but they're not perfect, 95 00:05:26,213 --> 00:05:28,453 Speaker 3: and I love that. You can hear some some harmonies 96 00:05:28,493 --> 00:05:30,453 Speaker 3: and you're like, that's not quite right, you haven't quite 97 00:05:30,493 --> 00:05:33,733 Speaker 3: hit the note. The guitar tones a little bit fuzzy acoustically, 98 00:05:34,013 --> 00:05:36,333 Speaker 3: but it's all really familiar for Wilco fans. You can 99 00:05:36,413 --> 00:05:38,413 Speaker 3: hear this is one of the things I always love 100 00:05:38,453 --> 00:05:40,333 Speaker 3: about records. You can hear a cheer scrape in one 101 00:05:40,373 --> 00:05:42,573 Speaker 3: of the songs, and you can you can catch the 102 00:05:42,653 --> 00:05:45,413 Speaker 3: creaking and the heaving. Yeah, yeah, you can hear the 103 00:05:45,533 --> 00:05:48,533 Speaker 3: heaving of that piano sustained pedal, and it reminds me 104 00:05:48,613 --> 00:05:51,053 Speaker 3: of the old you know, the old primary school teacher 105 00:05:51,133 --> 00:05:53,053 Speaker 3: belting out of tune in the school hall on a 106 00:05:53,373 --> 00:05:56,253 Speaker 3: slightly out of tune piano. It's got that feel about it. 107 00:05:56,373 --> 00:05:57,733 Speaker 2: So what did you give it? James? 108 00:05:58,173 --> 00:06:00,653 Speaker 3: Oh? Look, this is a solid If we're out of ten, 109 00:06:00,693 --> 00:06:02,293 Speaker 3: I can't remember' out of ten or five? It's out 110 00:06:02,293 --> 00:06:03,453 Speaker 3: of ten? What are we out of? 111 00:06:03,693 --> 00:06:04,173 Speaker 2: Out of ten? 112 00:06:04,693 --> 00:06:07,253 Speaker 3: Out of ten? I would give it for Wilco fans 113 00:06:07,493 --> 00:06:09,773 Speaker 3: and Tweety junkies, it's a nine out of ten. For 114 00:06:10,053 --> 00:06:11,933 Speaker 3: your average listener, it's probably a seven. 115 00:06:12,373 --> 00:06:14,933 Speaker 2: Okay, it does sound sounds really good. I'm into Wilco, 116 00:06:15,013 --> 00:06:16,213 Speaker 2: so it sounds like a bit to me. Thank you 117 00:06:16,333 --> 00:06:19,533 Speaker 2: so much, James. So, Twilight over Read is Jeff Tweety's 118 00:06:19,573 --> 00:06:22,173 Speaker 2: new album, Twilight Override. We'll have a bit more of 119 00:06:22,213 --> 00:06:24,293 Speaker 2: a Listen to a couple of minutes for more. 120 00:06:24,253 --> 00:06:27,293 Speaker 1: From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to News 121 00:06:27,373 --> 00:06:30,213 Speaker 1: Talks at b from nine am Saturday, or follow the 122 00:06:30,293 --> 00:06:31,733 Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio.