Jeff Tweedy has announced a triple album called Twilight Override. It’s slated for release on September 26 via dBpm Records. To mark the news, the Wilco frontman has fittingly shared three lead tracks – one from each disc: ‘One Tiny Flower’, ‘Out in the Dark’, and ‘Stray Cats in Spain’ – as well as the radio single ‘Enough’. They’re all quite lovely, but ‘Stray Cats in Spain’ stuck out to me as the most affecting. Take a listen below.
Tweedy recorded and self-produced Twilight Override at his Chicago studio, The Loft, with engineering and mixing from Tom Schick. It features friends and frequent collaborators including James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and Tweedy’s children Spencer and Sammy. In a statement, Tweedy shared:
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.
Tweedy noted that while he did not have a cohesive story planned out for the record, “the way that this ended up falling together and being arranged—it does tell a story that I think I wanted to tell. That’s what a process does for me. This is why it sounded right to me in this order, aside from tempos and music.”
Twilight Override Cover Artwork:
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 2025-26 Tour Dates:
Jul 24 – Treehouse Brewing, Deerfield MA
Jul 27 – Newport Music Festival, Newport RI
Sep 5 – Iowa City Songwriters Festival, Iowa City IA
Sep 6 – Ellnora Guitar Festival @ Krannert Center for the Performing Arts of Illinois, Urbana IL
Oct 8 – Acorn Theater, Three Oaks MI *
Oct 10 – The Concert Hall, Toronto ON #
Oct 11 – Théâtre Beanfield, Montreal QC !
Oct 13 – Higher Ground, Burlington VT *
Oct 14 – Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon NH #
Oct 16 – State Theatre, Portland ME !
Oct 17 – District Music Hall, Norwalk CT *
Oct 18 – Royale, Boston MA #
Oct 20 – Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA *
Oct 22- Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY !
Oct 24 – Patchogue Theatre, Patchogue NY #
Oct 25 – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond VA !
Oct 26 – Lincoln Theatre, Washington DC *
Oct 27 – 9:30 Club, Washington DC #
Oct 29 – The Caverns, Grundy County TN !
Oct 30- Headliners Music Hall, Louisville KY *
Nov 1 – Salt Shed (Indoors), Chicago IL #
Nov 5 – Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI !
Nov 6 – First Avenue, Minneapolis MN *
Nov 8 – Liberty Hall, Lawrence KS #
Nov 9 – Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa OK !
Nov 11 – Longhorn, Dallas TX *
Nov 12 – Paramount Theatre, Austin TX #
Nov 14 – The Heights, Houston TX !
Nov 15 – Chickie Wah Wah, New Orleans LA *
Nov 16 – Chickie Wah Wah, New Orleans LA #
Nov 18 – Hattiesburg Saenger Theater, Hattiesburg MS
Nov 20 – Temple/Live Scottish Rite Theatre, Peoria Il *
Nov 21 – Shannon Hall, Madison WI !
Feb 11 2026 – Teatro Eslava, Madrid
Feb 12 – Paral·lel 62, Barcelona
Feb 14 – Alhambra, Paris
Feb 15 – Antigel Festival, Geneva
Feb 17 – De Roma, Antwerp
Feb 18 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Feb 20 – Islington Assembly Hall, London
* with Sima Cunningham
# with Macie Stewart
! with Liam Kazar
Great Job Konstantinos Pappis & the Team @ Our Culture Source link for sharing this story.
