| iTunes Session | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Wilco |
| Cover: | File:Wilco iTunes Session Cover.jpg |
| Released: | January 24, 2012 |
| Recorded: | 2012 |
| Studio: | The Loft, Chicago, Illinois |
| Genre: | Indie Rock |
| Length: | 29:56 |
| Label: | dBpm |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
iTunes Session is a 2012 EP by American indie rock band Wilco. The album was released on January 24, 2012, exclusively on the iTunes Store.[1] It features 5 songs from their 2011 album The Whole Love, two songs from two other albums of theirs, and a cover of "Cruel to Be Kind", by Nick Lowe, featuring Lowe on vocals.
Writing for Pitchfork Magazine, Stephen Deusner says "An eight-song iTunes Session EP hardly seems conducive to taking in the full scope of a band's career, especially when the tracklist primarily comprises songs from the most recent album", saying "this new release unearths a track from Wilco's 1995 debut, A.M., which suggests they're getting back to the business of being a pop band. They aren't curtailing their experimental urges so much as they're putting more emphasis on tight songs they'd want to play and you'd want to hear in a semi-live setting." Later, he says "For those of us who prefer Wilco's pop songs over their avant-garde numbers, this is a strong, short set, emphasizing buoyant momentum over digressive din." [2]