And sure, there are strange noises and other elements weaved into the soundscape that initially scared the Warner record executives to reject this album, but that was their mistake

All of the unsettling doubt and tension that has been simmering beneath their skin the entire album is expressed audibly with an escalating frequency-scrambling noise build-up that the shortwave call sign "Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot." eventually becomes lost in

The pop and the noise, the harmonies, singing, bass, drumming, everything on this just fits perfectly

Unlike, say, on Radiohead's recent efforts, noise here is not an annoying distraction -- but an organic component as important and evocative as any other instrument

The bizarre noises, unconventional song structures, lyrics that pin down the zeitgeist in very strange ways, etc.

"Poor places" is a masterpiece of beautiful melody, quirky harmonic counterpoint, and finally a squall of radio static distortion that degenerates into painfully wonderful white noise.

It seems pretty laid back, although some songs transform from subtle acoustic tunes to pure white noise, which isnt a bad thing

It's an exhibit of great song writing, and beautiful lyrics, along with controlled yet unpredictable noises and drones throughout the song.

but then you realize that the noise makes the songs more rewarding

ONe thing that's really just buggin me is how so many people are putting down the electronic buzzing and hissing and humming noises, and it's true that this is not as album where you just listen to a few songs, you have to listen to the whole thing all the way

Some of the feedback drenched guitar and other unusual and original "noise" can be off-putting at first, but most of it is used really sparingly and fits in perfectly with the songs.'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' almost never got made, as documented in the bands recent film, and what a shame that would have been.

The songwriting is beautiful and interesting, the riffs are catchy, the beats are fantastic and the noise is incredible.

Unlike some bands, Wilco even makes "noise" sound like an essential part of the music--it isn't artsy-fartsy at all.

The band seems to be playing with its toys, messing up otherwise good songs with out-of-place distortion and repetitive noises.

YHF may be slightly excessive in its sonic texturing, leading to a few pockets of dead noise here and there, but most often compresses and contorts into fascinating shapes instead

The beautiful noise that introduces "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" clearly has Jim O'Rourke's fingerprints all over it, and the album is better for O'Rourke's influence

Rather than sounding like a group of guys banging at various instruments the bits of noise, the tweeks and twirps that appear on this album sound completely intentional and controlled, without taking away the chance or accident aspect that is necessary for good feedback and noise."Ashes of American Flags" for me really sums up the

All that goes to explain the "breaking" at the ends of songs, the radio chatter, and the intruding noise, in addition to the lyrics.

Several years removed from their alt-country past, Wilco delivered a record that is more readily accessible than say Radiohead's 1997 masterwork, OK Computer (the other record that Foxtrot is often compared to) and one that never crumbles under its weighty material moving strength to strength behind the band's noise inflected, sometimes languid but always intriguing songs

Noticable right from the first track are all the goofy special effects and strange noises that serve primarily to clutter up the band's sound.

Also, the background noise is just the icing on the cake; the layered percussion in "War on War", the strange high-pitched whistling noise on "Reservations", and... more stuff like that, create a very outdoors, wilderness type atmostphere to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Yes, unlike earlier Wilco and Uncle Tupelo, it is filled with funny noises and odd bits of electronica, but yikes, look at how much the Beatles changed from "Hard Days' Night" to the "White Album

The noise is interesting & cool, but without the rest it will just sit on the shelf instead of in the CD player

Except on this CD, not only do the ends of songs sort of fall apart into weird noise-fests, sometimes they start that way or drift into that in the middle

The beautiful noise that introduces "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" clearly has Jim O'Rourke's fingerprints all over it, and the album is better for O'Rourke's influence

Opening with the strange yet beautiful "I