Review: Wilco deliver their most consistently lovely album in years with Ode to Joy

Throughout Wilco's discography, Jeff Tweedy has always had a deft knack for transforming the entire mood of their music with nothing but a slight vocal inflection. It's that masterful control of vocal melody that underpins his songwriting, to the extent that, even throughout some of Wilco's more predictable, uneventful days (read: most of the past decade or so), Tweedy continues to command an audience. Ode to Joy, the band's most impressive record in years, sees Tweedy and Wilco having mastered ...