11-29-24 Release.

Following their acclaimed 2023 album Cousin, Wilco revisited unfinished material from these sessions to craft Hot Sun Cool Shroud. Collaborating again with engineering mixer Tom Schick, the band crafted six tracks that expand on the sound of Cousin.

According to Jeff Tweedy, they have "a summertime-after-dark kind of feeling. It starts off pretty hot, like heat during the day, has some instrumentals on it that are a little agitated and uncomfortable, and ends with a cooling breeze."

EPs have traditionally played a peripheral role in the Chicago group's catalog, but this six-song release has both the vision and the range of their full-lengths.

-Pitchfork

Hot Sun Cool Shroud is nothing like Cousin—it's better. You're getting a career's worth of checkpoints in such a small vacuum, and the EP is a deft reminder that this is one of the greatest rock bands of this century that we're dealing with after all.

-Paste Magazine

Features

12" Vinyl EP

Cover Designed by 3-Year-Old Clementine, an Attendee of Wilco's 2024 Solid Sound Festival

Selections

Side A:

Hot Sun

Livid

Ice Cream

Side B:

Annihilation

Inside the Bell Bones