Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Artist - Wilco

Title - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Format - 2x Vinyl LPs

Label - Nonesuch Records

2022 Remaster By Bernie Grundman

Wilco's legendary 4th studio album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was originally released on April 23, 2002. It delivers ten songs that have since become favorites among fans and critics alike. It scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene … simply a masterpiece.” And as the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s songs "unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.”

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot takes its title from a haunting recording of a woman repeating those words that is included in The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations; that recording is sampled in the penultimate song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, “Poor Places.”

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was widely acclaimed as one of 2002’s best albums, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NME, Q, Rolling Stone, and Uncut, among many others. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot also was featured in multiple decade-end lists, with Rolling Stone naming it #3 Album of the 2000s, as well as many Greatest Albums of All Time lists.