Jeff Tweedy reveals Wilco have been "chipping away at a new record"

Wilco's last album was 2019's Ode to Joy, and in a new update via Jeff Tweedy's Starship Casual Substack newsletter, he confirmed that the band are back in the studio, "chipping away at a new record".

Stereogum reports that Tweedy said in the audio message, "Just checking in to mostly apologise for the lack of activity this past week on the old Starship. Haven’t had a lot of correspondence since Nels and I covered a Tom Waits song last week behind the paywall. And it’s mostly because - almost entirely because - I’ve been in the studio with Wilco making some new music, chipping away at a new record."

"It’s been very, very, very fun and exciting, and we’re having a great time," Tweedy continued. "And so next week I should be able to get back to some normal scheduled correspondence. If I can get everybody in the Wilco braintrust on board, maybe I’ll share a snippet of a work in progress or something like that over the weekend behind the paywall. But like I said, next week should be more like the normal amount of reaching out and sharing and just the general activities we’ve come to expect here on the Starship. Alright, carry on."

Tweedy's update comes shortly after the announcement of Wilco's 20th anniversary Yankee Hotel Foxtrot shows, which will take place in New York and Chicago this April.