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Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez<\/em><\/p>\n Jeff Tweedy is paying tribute to his sonic guardian with a new single and Austin Vesley-directed music video for the track \u201cLou Reed Was My Babysitter.\u201d The latest preview of the Wilco frontman\u2019s triple solo album, Twilight Override<\/em>, due on September 26 via dBpm Records, finds the songwriter giving his best impression of the Cafe Bizarre tastemaker, equipped with a sense of deadpan poetics and avant-garde tempo shifts accompanied by Tweedy\u2019s reactionary whoop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cLou Reed Was My Babysitter\u201d courses the spirit of the Velvet Underground, seasoned with a familiar blend of proto-punk and rock backing, that sparks a reference to the 1970s Loaded<\/em> feature, \u201cRock & Roll.\u201d The track\u2019s sentiment highlights the significance of Reed\u2019s music on an impressionable and adolescent Tweedy, who drew much of his musical introduction and appreciation from his brother\u2019s record collection, which served as his primary source of entertainment and a sublime caretaker.<\/p>\n In his own words, Tweedy describes it as \u201cThe joy in this dark music that Lou Reed made, and the beautiful conflict that it creates when you try and analyze it. And how it was such a positive force for so many people. \u2018My life was saved by rock and roll\u2019\u2014Lou Reed is saying the same thing. I was babysat by fucking Lou Reed, literally, in my bedroom as a 10-year-old, 12-year-old kid. His music was a more legitimate mentor to me than most of my teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n At its core, \u201cLou Reed Was My Babysitter\u201d conveys the visceral sensation of live music, in both mood and sound, as depicted in the official music video, which features Tweedy, his sons, Spencer and Sammy, and Twilight Override<\/em> contributors Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, and Liam Kazar performing in a house party environment, and working toward a headbanging surge of: \u201cThe dead don\u2019t die, The dead don\u2019t die, The dead don\u2019t die, The dead don\u2019t die\u2026\u201d Watch below.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLou Reed Was My Babysitter\u201d is the latest sample from Tweedy\u2019s forthcoming triple album, Twilight Override<\/em>, which has already yielded the pensive meditation \u201cFeel Free,\u201d the reflective \u201cOne Tiny Flower,\u201d and the accompanying single, \u201cOut in the Dark,\u201d \u201cStray Cats in Spain,\u201d and \u201cEnough.\u201d Twilight Override represents Tweedy\u2019s influx of creativity and is the result of a five-year gap in solo deliverables, stemming from 2020\u2019s Love Is The King<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Twilight Override<\/em> offers peaks of lyrical light, showcasing Tweedy\u2019s finesse for lines within the framework of a darkening societal atmosphere. Over the course of 30 entries, Tweedy sharpens his commentary on past, present, and future, while deliberately positioning Easter eggs that allude to his own experiences and influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pre-order<\/a> Twilight Override. <\/em>Watch the official music video for \u201cLou Reed Was My Babysitter,\u201d below.\u00a0
Catch Tweedy on tour this fall. For tickets, visit wilcoworld.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n