Wide Swing Tremolo
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| Wide Swing Tremolo | ||||
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| Studio album by Son Volt | ||||
| Released | October 6, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Jajouka Studio | |||
| Genre | Alternative country | |||
| Length | 45:34 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Son Volt | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[3] |
| Los Angeles Times | [4] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [5] |
| Pitchfork | 7.3/10[6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
| Wall of Sound | 82/100[9] |
Wide Swing Tremolo is the third studio album by alternative country band Son Volt.[10][11] It was released in 1998 on Warner Bros. Records.[2][12]
The album peaked at No. 93 on the Billboard 200.[13]
The album was recorded in Millstadt, Illinois, at the band's rehearsal space.[14] It was produced by the band and engineered by David Barbe.[15]
Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "many of the songs ... return to the power and purity of the band’s brilliant 1995 debut, Trace.[3] Trouser Press called the album "genuinely mediocre," writing that "the flourishes that had initially made Son Volt uncanny had transgressed into stale formula."[16] The Tucson Weekly wrote that "the songs retain Farrar's downcast approach, but they're extremely well-written this time around; and the band seems to have been reinvigorated, putting a little more into their performances than the cultivated ennui we've become accustomed to."[17]
