‘LOU REED WAS MY BABYSITTER’, a track from Jeff Tweedy's forthcoming triple album Twilight Override, has been made available on streaming platforms. According to a statement, ‘This tune has been a crowd favourite at Jeff’s solo shows for some time...now it gets the release it deserves.’

This is the sixth song Tweedy has put out ahead of the release of Twilight Override on 26 September. When asked about the significance of the album title on The New Yorker Radio Hour, Tweedy said, ‘[It’s] the idea of making peace with something ending… I’m 58 years old, I would say that that could conceivably be thought of as a twilight. I love that I have something to share with my kids. I love that I have something to share with my kids' friends, and bands I meet, and younger bands. I love getting to be, hopefully, something to them that I wish some of the bands I really admired had been for me.’

Fans have been invited to contribute a verse to another song on the album, ‘Feel Free’, with the guidance: ‘each verse is a rhyming couplet that describes something people do to feel free.’ Tweedy will choose his favourite fan-penned verses and record a new version of the song, to be released on his Substack: Starship Casual.