Jeff Tweedy has harnessed the impetus of his pandemic-era creativity to a new triple album, Twilight Override, set for release on September 26, 2025, via dBpm Records, previewed today by lead tracks “One Tiny Flower,” “Out In The Dark,” “Stray Cats in Spain” and the radio single
“Enough.” Complementing the arrival of new music is an expansive series of North American and European tour dates in support of the collection.
Twilight Override comes a half-decade after Tweedy’s prior infectious solo release, Love Is the King, as an expansive three-disc album that threads together thematic overlaps that emerge as beacons of light during a period of global uncertainty. The self-produced and recorded set came out of Tweedy’s beloved The Loft studio in Chicago. It was engineered and mixed by Tom Schick, with musical accompaniment by a diverse group of friends and family, including James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and the artist’s sons, Spencer and Sammy Tweedy.
Like a three-part series, each entry of Twilight Override exists as an independent collection, but together, they piece a large story, meditations on the past, present and future. Levitating on a different creative level than before, Tweedy says, “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.”
He continues, “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.”
Tweedy adds, “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.”
Despite the presentation, Tweedy never intended to pencil a narrative for the album; instead, the overlap surfaces and becomes increasingly potent with each listen. “I’m not trying to imply that I had this all mapped out as a story,” he explains. “The way that this ended up falling together and being arranged—it does tell a story that I think I wanted to tell. That’s what a process does for me. This is why it sounded right to me in this order, aside from tempos and music.”
As a preview of Tweedy’s creative push through uncertainty, he presents the first four singles, including the album opener, “One Tiny Flower,” a tale of a man who trips over dead blooms, while also introducing one of the album’s recurring themes: the use of choral group singing. “Out in the Dark” presents the musician’s exploration of songwriting through a story of a planet robbed of its moon.
“Stray Cats in Spain” is aptly personal, Tweedy shared, “The way the music all came together and sounds the way it does is better than I could have ever imagined. It sounds like mosaic and it smells like pomade.” “Enough” is the set’s closer, or as he calls it, “the light you’re working towards the whole record.”
Tweedy continues, “It is the light that just comes to terms with–okay, it’s never gonna be enough. It’s never gonna be fully okay. You’re never gonna completely fill yourself up with all this stuff you love. You’re endless, you’re deep, you’re insatiable…if you’re doing it right. Stop thinking so fucking much about.”
Twilight Override adds another layer to Tweedy’s prolific solo career and serves as the latest update on the artist’s creative output and ability to connect with listeners through deeply personal lyrics, poetically crafted to tug at the heartstrings and inspire repeat listens.
Listen to Tweedy’s new singles here. Tickets for the Twilight Override Tour go on sale July 18, at 10 a.m. local time at wilcoworld.net.
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Twilight Override Tracklist
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
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