damaged is the best lambchop album
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Didn't work. Maybe just search for "LAMBCHOP LIVE @ OCB PAPER SESSIONS! [FULL SESSION]".
― djh, Friday, 29 June 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
new one This (is what I wanted to tell you) out 03/22. First single keeps going down the electro country R&B rabbit hole.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
delighted that they're pushing further in this direction, new song is lovely
― ufo, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Sigh. Bye, Lambchop. This direction sucks.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
the two genders
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
yayyy
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
i wanted another record in the flotus mold with slighter tighter songs and.. seems like that's happening
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
slightly* lol
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
also this is like as gorgeous and slow-blooming as any classic lambchop song, it just has vocoder and synthetic percussion and weird keyboard-present embellishments so it feels like a watery dream instead of a gradual ache
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
preset* doing great today
the vocoder feels a little better-integrated here, also
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
put me on the "i don't like this version of lambchop" list. saw them live on the flotus tour and it was pretty boring. i don't mind the sonic experimentation but the songs don't seem to be there.
― na (NA), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NxdNERUGc
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPERKl54QBY
oh i LOVE this one
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
dig this
― nxd, Thursday, 7 March 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
the section from about 4:25 onwards is especially lovely
― ufo, Thursday, 7 March 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
I'll never get past the electronic vocal bullshit. It's a shame; the band sounds great.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
absolutely. why do acts i love use f*cking autotunes. though on the low album it somehow worked.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
you're both nerds
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
Makes them sound like Dntel in 2002
― Duke, Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
I find it suits the timbre of the music just fine; it's made their move toward easy liquidity more pronounced. Plus, I trust Wagner, which makes it easier to go with it.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
the vocal processing suits the watery texture of the music well
the whole album (it's out there) is very pretty, feels like floating in a lake
― ufo, Friday, 8 March 2019 01:42 (five years ago) link
It seems a bit passé, no?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
(the track that was posted)
i love this weird underwater soft rock album
― ufo, Friday, 22 March 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
this is very different.... but very good?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 22 March 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
To stick with the water metaphors, it washed over me and left behind virtually no jetsam whatsoever.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 22 March 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
Can't stand the vocals, it's like someone has peed in my glass of water.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Friday, 22 March 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
it's perfect background music but still there's the occasional standout moment like the sublime solo in "the new isn't so you anymore"
― ufo, Friday, 22 March 2019 11:37 (five years ago) link
oh my god y’all it’s just a vocoder
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
^^ amen.
It's spring and there's a weak sun out and this just flows over me in such a beautiful and tender way. He's set out on this path some years ago and seems to want to make his music "smaller", smoother, and it's just the best direction he could take.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 March 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
damn this album is beautiful
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
one of the reasons i struggled (and still struggle) with flotus was bc wagner's lyrical voice was largely absent or broken into unintelligible fragments. but on this record it's back baby!!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
all the songs are just these weird collapsing waves of instrumental and vocal hooks
i think this is already one of my absolute favorite lambchop records
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it's great. It demonstrates huge strides in them embracing this style that the last album only suggested ("The Hustle" aside)
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
"the lasting last of you" is just... what even is that
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
The harmonica solo on the opener is my fave moment of anything so far this year
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
i love that solo so much
― ufo, Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
this album is maybe the closest in texture to the donkey kong country soundtrack out of anything i've ever heard
― ufo, Monday, 25 March 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2019 13:09 (three days ago) Bookmark
there's no just here.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 25 March 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
thinking about the vocal processing on this album an obvious future collaborator would be b.j. burton and from there i'm dreaming of something that pushes this album's direction even further and ends up in like... sophisti-pop meets loveless territory
something that bridges the gap between "to here knows when" (via double negative etc.) and "aquatic ambience"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc
like push the weird underwater sophisti-pop thing further, add in a lot more echoey woodwinds and a bit of distortion here and there
― ufo, Monday, 25 March 2019 06:18 (five years ago) link
one of the reasons i struggled (and still struggle) with flotus was bc wagner's lyrical voice was largely absent or broken into unintelligible fragments.
Yeah I feel this to a certain extent. I like FLOTUS as an experimental/transitional record in their discography, but there’s also a reason that my favorite tracks on it are “The Hustle” and “In Care Of…” - at the end of the day his words are the main draw for me. A 2nd FLOTUS would have been kind of a letdown for me, glad to hear that this has more focus on lyrics.
― One Eye Open, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:57 (five years ago) link
the opener on this is like a warm bath to me
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
I'm quite literally in a warm bath listening to this and somehow my shitty phone speaker is helping this make sense: when I think back to what I've always loved about Lambchop, it's really Wagner and his voice and words that mean the most - the warp and weft of the incredible bands he amasses are like an extraordinary bonus; it's this that's coming through loud and clear third time around. I'll happily grow old with him.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Monday, 25 March 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's nearly overwhelmingly gorgeous, is what it is.
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 March 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
most of the tracks on FLOTUS just feel like experimental sketches exploring the possibility of the new sound palette they'd developed but with little in the way of traditional songs. "The Hustle" is a triumph of course, and the rest of the album has its moments but it doesn't really do much for me as an album.
the new album takes the sound palette established on FLOTUS but has much stronger and more traditional songwriting - despite the sound the songs really don't feel very far removed from say Is A Woman - and the result is a triumph
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to listening to this and revisiting earlier works for context. Hitting Silver Platters today for this and These New Puritans, then a sandwich from Paseo. That's a good afternoon!
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
I'd say that FLOTUS gets by on the strength of In Care of 8675309 and The Hustle and the rest of the in between sketches.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Just picked this up today and LOL'd at the quote on the hype sticker: "Picture yourself on a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies... This is not that." - Kurt Wagner
― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link