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Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
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Chief Lambchopper Kurt Wagner's magpie tendencies are fully displayed on the band's lovely 10th proper album. Tracks such as hushed opener ''Ohio'' and the Johnny Cash-esque ''Of Raymond'' show off elegant blends of country, rock, soul, and jazz. Actually, OH (Ohio) has something of an avian bent all-round. Wagner name-checks a blackbird on beautiful acoustic number ''Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed,'' while the more upbeat ''National Talk Like a Pirate Day'' makes mention of, naturally, a parrot. Those interested in seeing Wagner dressed like a pirate — avec bird! — should fly over to the band's MySpace page. A– Download This: Listen to ''Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed'' on the band's MySpace page...full text |
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Listening to Lambchop records has always sounds like being let in on a secret. Steeped in country and western and soul music, their sound is both intricate and understated. And Kurt Wagner’s whisper has too many holes in it to even be called gravelly. But the holes in his voice reveal the emotional heft of their songs, and always find a bottom in the band’s swaying sound. Over ten albums—not including EPs and singles collections—Lambchop has achieved a consistency that most bands can’t maintain over a discography a third as long. And sometimes—on Nixon and How I Quit Smoking in particular—Lambchop are brilliant, near untouchable. And now, with OH (ohio), they’ve added another album to the Lambchop Classics catalog. Like so many of their albums, it has their signature sound, and it isn’t until you are deep into the record that you see how they’ve broken off and done something subtly new here. Amazon Wagner has talked in the past about how certain Lambchop records have highlighted certain members of the band. On, OH (ohio), drummer Scott Martin nearly steals the show. He can keep with the jazzy shuffle of the band on tracks like “Ohio” and the beautiful ballad “A Hold of You”. But he injects a new energy into this new album. Songs like “National Talk Like a Pirate Day” and “Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King Jr.” are country highway rompers with Martin on the skins. He picks up the pace on these tracks, but keeps on shuffling brushes on the snare and sneaking in fills to keep the songs from ever getting simple on their long drives. And when muscle is called for, like on the funked-out ending to “Popeye”, Martin comes to play, popping and thudding along with the heavy bass line....full text |
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I'll never pretend to have been a lifelong devotee of the eccentricities of Kurt Wagner or the loose collective of musicians who fill out the rest of the Lambchop roster, but I can say this much with certainty: as I get older and presumably wiser, I enjoy their records more and more. In my formative years having always been drawn in by the seeming individuality of punk rock and the seeming experimentation for experimentation's sake of noise-/indie-rock, it's not hard to see a sort of romantic mystery enveloping Lambchop; after all, the best music only gets better with the more music you hear. With that in mind I'm pleased to announce that for those who have found previous releases by Wagner and his accomplices to be steadied or impenetrable, the collective's latest offering, OH (ohio), is the window of opportunity to access the early morning haze of Lambchop's best work that you've been waiting for (or didn't know you were waiting for). The album, which is being released via Merge in the US, almost functions as a soundtrack to that time mid-morning when all the kids have gone to school and everyone working nine-to-five is at their job. When the yawn at the beginning of the strangely affecting (in the sense that it eschews recycling with the weird line "Being green doesn't matter, when you're blue") title song kicks in, we find ourselves bracing for more of the tongue-in-cheek lethargy featured on recent opuses Aw C'mon, No, You C'mon and of course the academically pleasing (and fan puzzling) Damaged, but by the time the piano ballad "Please Rise" begins plodding climactically it is clear that Wagner has snuck up on us with his smirky optimism. Musically, there's not a lot here you haven't already heard: it's all about the subtle soul- and country-affected arrangements that shimmer quietly (especially considering how many people are contributing) around Wagner's songs. It's the approach that seems different. "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed" sounds sophisticated enough that you could see yourself, in business clothes, stylishly soothing your way home in a leather-upholstered automobile. The twosome of "I'm Thinking of a Number" and "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" both have the distinct pleasure of conveying Wagner's sense of humor (see the titles) and his innate instincts when it comes to arranging and writing songs (to anyone who couldn't figure out what was so great about Nixon). With OH (ohio), Wagner has crafted a soundtrack of specific detail for that lazy mid-morning melancholy that comes to anyone who feels like the world is turning without them. Enjoy it. And for those of you adhering to the formula that punk/noise=individuality, give Wagner a chance. Something about a guy that makes whatever record he wants regardless of what anyone thinks is kind of endearing, no?...full text |
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