― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Will (will), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link
Nick is OTM above... I love the way there's all this stuff going on JUST inside your field of hearing, but it feels so much more affecting out there on the periphery. The way 'Bugs' feels like its building up and up without ever really getting any faster or louder is marvellous.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 August 2003 08:44 (twenty years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 14 August 2003 08:57 (twenty years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:21 (twenty years ago) link
The Man Who Loved Beer is all time favourite ever, probably. How I Quit Smoking is insanely underrated.
― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:51 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 15 August 2003 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
And haven't you got everything everyone's done?
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
Oh for all of Muslimgauze's work.
I sorta wish the falsetto had come out more, frankly.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
1. Either he can't sing or he doesn't feel too much like trying 2. I found his that-almost-means-something lyrics intensely annoying
Musically it was quite good - might drag it out again.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 17 April 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
So last week I saw Aw C'Mon/No You C'Mon for £5 and decided to take the plunge. It's good - I haven't had time to fully get to know it but there are some crackers on No You C'Mon - 'There's Still Time', 'Nothing Adventurous' 'The Producers'.
So I saw 'Is A Woman' for a fiver too. Hmm - looked a bit *sepia* for my taste but what the heck, I bought it.
What a record!! I am loving this album so much. To these crash-bang-wallop trained ears it took a couple of listens to recalibrate and then...wow! Some truly lovely melodies/chord changes and superb layering. I see what people say about the lyrics and they're not wrong...yet they work. I like the fragmented, in-and-out of sleep feel. It's *evocative*, I think. (Did I really say that?)
And I'm surprised to find out who some of the admirers are - Matt DC says some great stuff upthread! Also Tim Hopkins!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link
aw cmon... is great too but i haven't listened to it a lot. the instrumentals are gorgeously melodic and instantly gratifying. but i think i would have preferred it to be condensed to just one disc.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Is A Woman is extraordinary. I kind of think you don't really need anything else by them.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Unsurprisingly, it's like a cross bewtween "Lazy" and "Up With People", with piano to the fore and a neat video that seems to take its stylistic cues from, uh, "Money For Nothing".
Your thoughts, ILM?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Source: subtitle of their forum here.
Gushing preview & more info here.
No confirmed tracklist yet, AFAIK, but these 10 tracks are out there somewhere:
01. Paperback Bible (7:48)02. Prepared (6:03)03. The Rise And Fall Of The Letter P (3:36)04. A Day Without Glasses (4:11)05. Beers Before The Barbican (4:51)06. I Would Have Waited Here All Day (4:02)07. Crackers (4:11)08. Fear (5:00)09. Short (3:48)10. The Decline Of Country And Western Civilization (4:36)
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Please disregard and choose one of these two corrections:9th (or 8th, if you count Aw/No as one album)8th (or 9th, if you count Aw/No as two albums)
:-)
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren ruiz (sheep1300), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 June 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I havent given the rest of their stuff a shot yet, but I do hope it's like this album. It's got this awesome sort of quiet and subdued intensity, like the sax (the sax!) in New Cobweb Summer that comes in at about 3:30...I nominate this for best use of a sax in a pop/rock song ever! and the layering - the "na na na" female voices in Track 4...
overall, a really compelling album. It's sleepy sort of, like Low can be, but i think much more lush and intricate.
finally, to quote ryan, "is there anything else out there that sounds like Is a Woman?"
anyone?
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 23 July 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
So shy tonight I'm told you were, I'm in the thick of it, i've been a dick with it, you're just not used to it
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 28 July 2007 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
And I'm alright. Well, as you were. There's no use for this: It's not a theater kiss, 's more like a railroad piss.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 28 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
My confidence is returning; I'm relating and remarking in an improved fashion, so much that I decide to stop on my way home. So much that I decide to stop for donuts on the drive home.
― will, Saturday, 28 July 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
and it's still an instance of something human being exported to something mechanical
Autotune flattens out those uniquely human aspects and makes the human sound mechanical.
feel free to correct me if this definition is scientifically accurate but i wouldn't say autotune flattens uniquely human aspects of the voice at all, it exposes a lot of instabilities in the voice that performance can cover up
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
but I can def relate to the feeling of a band you like taking a left turn on a new album and liking it while simultaneously feeling "if this is their new thing I might be out"
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, June 12, 2019 10:50 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
― Evan, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
xp clearly we're in ear of the beholder territory here, i don't hear it like that but I'm not going to try to talk you out of it if you do!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Just listened to the album for the first time lol, I am very happy for you people who can appreciate the autotune because that excepted, some of the songs are obviously so good; but I just can't get over it. When the last (non-autotuned) song came on I almost wept.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 13 June 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
just did a double feature of In A Silent Way followed by This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) and man, do those two records sound good together. Especially with all the ghostly muted trumpet floating in & out of the mix on the Lambchop, a perfect pairing.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 19 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
kind of love this remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2-6PrVDQKc
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
So they released a 13-minute cover of Wilco's Reservations. First listen and it's kinda just there but will try a couple more times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKBBCdlOCc
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 20 September 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
wasn't sure of the new covers LP... but god i've not listened to This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) enough in the last year. I think I overplayed it in 2019 so needed a break. it's so great.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzNWfgRFjhY
new album Showtunes out May 21
the concept this time is he composed demo piano tracks with a midi editor instead of writing with a guitar, and it also features James McNew of Yo La Tengo as a band member (https://www.lambchop.net/ press release is here)
"chef's kiss" is pretty nice, a similar-ish feeling to the last album but he's shifted around which bits of the sound feel more and less organic. some people will be delighted he dropped the vocal processing but personally i could have listened to a whole career of albums with it
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
This (is what I wanted to tell you) was so good that it will be difficult to beat though
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
really lovely and interesting
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
That's hit home. His voice is beautiful at this pitch. Not wishing age on him but I think Wagner's voice will be extraordinary in later life.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP8SGpb0PTc
fuck yeah!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 12 April 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
sounds like the lambchop discography collapsing on itself
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 12 April 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
my goodness
those horns!
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Monday, 12 April 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
oh wow
― ufo, Monday, 12 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
lol & otm. yeah their progression is very much like "i've been burning and re-ripping CDR copies of the same lambchop album for 20 years, and i think the drive is starting to fail." in the best way.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 April 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQIFEjqnqCQ
another gorgeous new one
― ufo, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
pretty good album, though not quite as perfectly to my tastes as the last one
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
did no one else care about this album at all?
https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tune-glue-011-kurt-wagner-lambchop
great interview with wagner here
― ufo, Saturday, 5 June 2021 07:30 (two years ago) link
Not sure it's as good as the last, and feels like it will take some time to settle in - but i've really enjoyed first few listens
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
That’s a terrific interview.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 6 June 2021 06:47 (two years ago) link
the new album is pleasant & interesting but not the masterpiece the last one was yeah
― ufo, Sunday, 6 June 2021 06:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7BBAipvzw
another new album already, the bible out 30 september
single is pretty cool, glad to have more of the warped sophisti-pop vibes of the last few albums
― ufo, Thursday, 16 June 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
INTO THIS.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
sounds like it could be in a michael mann movie. love that he's leaning into this sound.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 17 June 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
a few more listens later and i adore this
― ufo, Friday, 17 June 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
i missed Ohio the first time around but turns out its one of their best whoops
― ciderpress, Friday, 16 September 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
It’s my favorite. Saw them in San Francisco touring that one; it was beautiful.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 17 September 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link
new album is wild wow
― ufo, Friday, 30 September 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGTmlAfhHE
this one's especially cool
― ufo, Friday, 30 September 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
very nice
― nxd, Friday, 30 September 2022 09:42 (one year ago) link
greatest band of all time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 30 September 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
this is an incredibly stupid thing to say but "little black boxes" reminds me of last train to paris
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Well, this is _unexpected_. 'Little Black Boxes' currently making me think of Hall & Oates, The1975 and Little Simz.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
OK, 'Every Child Begins the World Again' just broke me. It's been a rough week.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
"little black boxes" reminds me of last train to paris
lol i totally get this
― ufo, Friday, 30 September 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-page-of-madness-with-live-musical-accompaniment-by-coupler-tickets-609503049027?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
May 5, 2023: Coupler is accompanying the silent film A Page of Madness (1926). Anyone here going?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:16 (eleven months ago) link