Jeff Tweedy announces new triple album, Twilight Override

Shervin Lainez

Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy has announced a new triple album. On September 26, he’ll release Twilight Override via dBPM. Today he’s shared four new songs: “One Tiny Flower,” “Out in the Dark,” “Stray Cats in Spain” and “Enough.” Hear them below.

Tweedy released a statement about the album: “When you choose to do creative things, you align yourself with something that other people call God. And when you align yourself with creation, you inherently take a side against destruction. You’re on the side of creation. And that does a lot to quell the impulse to destroy. Creativity eats darkness.

“Sort of an endless buffet these days—a bottomless basket of rock bottom. Which is, I guess, why I’ve been making so much stuff lately. That sense of decline is hard to ignore, and it must be at least a part of the shroud I’m trying to unwrap. The twilight of an empire seems like a good enough jumping-off point when one is jumping into the abyss.

“Twilight sure is a pretty word, though. And the world is full of happy people in former empires, so maybe that’s not the only source of this dissonance. Whatever it is out there (or in there) squeezing this ennui into my day, it’s fucking overwhelming. It’s difficult to ignore. Twilight Override is my effort to overwhelm it right back. Here are the songs and sounds and voices and guitars and words that are an effort to let go of some of the heaviness and up the wattage on my own light. My effort to engulf this encroaching nighttime (nightmare) of the soul.“

Wilco’s last album was 2023’s Cousin. Their 1999 album summerteeth is included on our list of the 150 Best Albums of the 1990s.

Jeff Tweedy Twilight Override tracklist:

Disc 1
1. One Tiny Flower
2. Caught Up in the Past
3. Parking Lot
4. Forever Never Ends
5. Love Is for Love
6. Mirror
7. Secret Door
8. Betrayed
9. Sign of Life
10. Throwaway Lines

Disc 2
1. KC Rain (No Wonder)
2. Out in the Dark
3. Better Song
4. New Orleans
5. Over My Head (Everything Goes)
6. Western Clear Skies
7. Blank Baby
8. No One’s Moving On
9. Feel Free

Disc 3
1. Lou Reed Was My Babysitter
2. Amar Bharati
3. Wedding Cake
4. Stray Cats in Spain
5. Ain’t It a Shame
6. Twilight Override
7. Too Real
8. This Is How It Ends
9. Saddest Eyes
10. Cry Baby Cry
11. Enough

Jeff Tweedy tour dates:

Thu. July 24 – Deerfield, MA @ Treehouse Brewing
Sun. July 27 – Newport, RI @ Newport Music Festival
Fri. Sept. 5 – Iowa City, IA @ Iowa City Songwriters Festival
Sat. Sept. 6 – Urbana, IL @ Ellnora Guitar Festival- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts of Illinois
Wed. Oct. 8 – Three Oaks, MI @ Acorn Theater *
Fri. Oct. 10 – Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall #
Sat. Oct. 11 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield !
Mon. Oct. 13 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground *
Tue. Oct. 14 – Lebanon, NH @ Lebanon Opera House #
Thu. Oct. 16 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre !
Fri. Oct. 17 – Norwalk, CT @ District Music Hall *
Sat. Oct. 18 – Boston, MA @ Royale #
Mon. Oct. 20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Wed. Oct. 22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel !
Fri. Oct. 24 – Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre #
Sat. Oct. 25 – Richmond, VA @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden !
Sun. Oct. 26 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre *
Mon. Oct. 27 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club #
Wed. Oct. 29 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns !
Thu. Oct. 30 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall *
Sat. Nov. 1 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed (Indoors) #
Wed. Nov. 5 – Milwaukee WI @ Pabst Theater !
Thu. Nov. 6 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
Sat. Nov. 8 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall #
Sun. Nov. 9 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom !
Tue. Nov. 11 – Dallas, TX @ Longhorn *
Wed. Nov. 12 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre #
Fri. Nov. 14 – Houston, TX @ The Heights !
Sat. Nov. 15 – New Orleans, LA @ Chickie Wah Wah *
Sun. Nov. 16 – New Orleans, LA @ Chickie Wah Wah #
Tue. Nov. 18 – Hattiesburg, MS @ Hattiesburg Saenger Theater
Thu. Nov. 20 – Peoria, IL @ Temple/Live Scottish Rite Theatre *
Fri. Nov. 21 – Madison, WI @ Shannon Hall #
Wed. Feb. 11- Madrid, ES @ Teatro Eslava
Thu. Feb. 12 – Barcelona, ES @ Paral·lel 62
Sat. Feb. 14 – Paris, FR @ Alhambra
Sun. Feb. 15 – Geneva, CH @ Antigel Festival
Tue. Feb. 17 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
Wed. Feb. 18 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
Fri. Feb. 20 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall