Jeff Tweedy announces triple album & tour: hear 4 songs now

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco has announced Twilight Override, his new triple solo album, which will be out September 26 via dBpm Records. He made it at his Loft Studios in Chicago with contributions from James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and Tweedy’s kids Spencer and Sammy.

Here’s what Jeff says about this 30-song collection:

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.

You can listen to four songs from Twilight Override now: “One Tiny Flower,” “Out In The Dark,” “Stray Cats in Spain,” and “Enough.” Check those out below.

Jeff will do a full-band tour for Twilight Override, with North American dates this fall where Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, and Liam Kazar will open depending on the show. The NYC stop is at Brooklyn Steel on October 22 with Liam Kazar. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, July 18 at 10 AM local time. All tour dates are listed below.

Jeff is also out with Wilco this summer.

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 – 2024/2025 Tour Dates
Thu. July 24 – Deerfield, MA @ Treehouse Brewing
Sun. July 27 – Newport, RI @ Newport Music Festival
Fri. Sept. 5 – Iowa City, IA @ Iowa City Songwriters Festival
Sat. Sept. 6 – Urbana, IL @ Ellnora Guitar Festival- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts of Illinois
Wed. Oct. 8 – Three Oaks, MI @ Acorn Theater *
Fri. Oct. 10 – Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall #
Sat. Oct. 11 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield !
Mon. Oct. 13 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground *
Tue. Oct. 14 – Lebanon, NH @ Lebanon Opera House #
Thu. Oct. 16 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre !
Fri. Oct. 17 – Norwalk, CT @ District Music Hall *
Sat. Oct. 18 – Boston, MA @ Royale #
Mon. Oct. 20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Wed. Oct. 22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel !
Fri. Oct. 24 – Patchogue, NY @ Patchogue Theatre #
Sat. Oct. 25 – Richmond, VA @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden !
Sun. Oct. 26 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre *
Mon. Oct. 27 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club #
Wed. Oct. 29 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns !
Thu. Oct. 30 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall *
Sat. Nov. 1 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed (Indoors) #
Wed. Nov. 5 – Milwaukee WI @ Pabst Theater !
Thu. Nov. 6 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
Sat. Nov. 8 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall #
Sun. Nov. 9 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom !
Tue. Nov. 11 – Dallas, TX @ Longhorn *
Wed. Nov. 12 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre #
Fri. Nov. 14 – Houston, TX @ The Heights !
Sat. Nov. 15 – New Orleans, LA @ Chickie Wah Wah *
Sun. Nov. 16 – New Orleans, LA @ Chickie Wah Wah #
Tue. Nov. 18 – Hattiesburg, MS @ Hattiesburg Saenger Theater
Thu. Nov. 20 – Peoria, IL @ Temple/Live Scottish Rite Theatre *
Fri. Nov. 21 – Madison, WI @ Shannon Hall #
Wed. Feb. 11- Madrid, ES @ Teatro Eslava
Thu. Feb. 12 – Barcelona, ES @ Paral·lel 62
Sat. Feb. 14 – Paris, FR @ Alhambra
Sun. Feb. 15 – Geneva, CH @ Antigel Festival
Tue. Feb. 17 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
Wed. Feb. 18 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
Fri. Feb. 20 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall

* with Sima Cunningham
# with Macie Stewart
! with Liam Kazar