I must take issue with the recent bout of criticisms that center around the sameness of a band's sound. If a band releases an album full of great songs, I do not believe that they must then change their sound in some fundamental way. Another album full of great songs that are consistent with the previous batch suits me fine. The important question is whether the songs are as strong or not. For example, CCR put out album after album of songs that did not range too far stylistically with consistently high quality songwriting. I don't see that as a problem.

I've never been a huge Wilco fan (I don't dislike them, but neither do I understand the level of critical acclaim that they have achieved), but I would suggest that the quality of the songwriting and performance on the recent album is a much more relevant question than the degree of departure from the previous albums.

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