Lambchop

still love Mr M-- did it not make the 2012 77 albums poll?

I don't think it did. I just got that album last month, really enjoying it. Damaged, Ohio and Mr M is a pretty great run of albums. Shame that the double album spoils an almost perfect run since Nixon.

its wonderful indian summer music

The reissue of Nixon comes out this week, and is well worth picking up. For any vinyl collectors, I think it's the first time it's out as an LP in the States. Bonus radio session from 1998 is great, and the record has more low end than the cd ever did, even when played at low volume. It's aged so well, and Merge using it to kick off their 25th anniversary reissue program is an honor it truly deserves.

Interested in picking that up. I was kind of put off by the artwork though, kind of wish it didn't have that silver border around the painting. It doesn't look quite right.

It looks pretty great in person. It's a nice way to easily separate the reissue from the original.

Think I'll still get it anyway as it's by far my favourite Chop. Wonder what other albums Merge will put out in this reissue program. Fingers crossed for something by The Clientele. Nixon is a good start though.

Superchunk's Indoor Living was recently announced as the February reissue.

So excited for this, my wife got it for me for Christmas and I think it was supposed to ship (or be available) Jan. 28. Glad to hear that it sounds even better too, look forward to cranking "Up With People" at serious volume.

i just started listening to this band and i can tell this is going to be one of those where i plow through their entire catalog in the next 2 months

lucky you

best thing i did this year was get into lambchop

new 18-minute-long single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9wz5esgAo

new album "FLOTUS" out nov. 4 - sounds like it's going to absorb some of the electronic sounds of the HeCTA side project

sounds goooood

kaputt of the year

not sure how i feel about the single, esp. the electronic elements, but it might work better as the last song on an album

that's really nice, love the way the drums start skittering to life around the 14-minute (!) mark

incidentally Mr. M is probably my favorite Lambchop album (that or Is a Woman)

Mr. M is amazing, such a warm album.

this last song meanders a lot but the rest of the record (which mostly, basically sounds the same) is beautiful and less aimless

aoty then

Like this!

So I liked Mr. M well enough, but I never return to it, and the new song is just mystifying to me. Such rinky-dink stuff. The percussion really grates on me, and this song just goes nowhere and not fast. Vague, quasi-music. I'll listen again, and maybe the album will reveal all. Dunno. Maybe they need an editor.

Less alt country, more Coupler: an exciting development. New song is great, too.

Wow, this new single is brilliant. I liked Mr M but this is something really special. Hope the rest of the album is similar.

Very surprising, but loving this. Who knew Lambchop would go Alva Noto on us?

Fantastic.

What do I need to know about Coupler?

That's what I'd like to know!

I have been doing my research and Flotus appears to be Michelle Obama's Twitter handle. Perhaps this didn't need stating.

You don't say. But good on you, Miss Marple :)

Coupler is longtime Lambchopper Ryan Norris' solo project. Three albums, all fantastic.

I sort of think of Coupler's music as "unsentimental kosmische," if that makes sense.

This track is flippin' amazing

http://i.imgur.com/j58iHJU.png

burn

This could have been such a great song. Without that dumb fucking drum machine!

i hate real drums

you guys should move into an apartment together

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/67/6722/1VUA100Z/posters/the-odd-couple-jack-lemmon-walter-matthau-1968.jpg

Based on this, apparently:

https://soundcloud.com/thirdmanrecords/coupler-invention-4-silenzio-sadak-in-search-of-the-waters-of-oblivion-blue-room-sessions

Hadn't realised there were so many Lambchop tour CDs.

Any particularly good?

Two of the dudes in Coupler work at Grimey's in Nashville. The main guy Ryan has been playing with Lambchop for a while. America In The Coming Age of Electronics is nice record if you like getting lost in analog synth landscapes. Vinyl sounds good, too.

"unsentimental kosmische" is awesome. Well done.

whole album is pretty great. obviously some new sonic wrinkles, but still very much a Lambchop record.

So, has anybody pre-ordered the wine box version of the album?

http://cityslang.frocksteady.com/shop/music/flotus-box.html

Last night's drunkenly compiled "Best of ..."

The Old Fat Robin
The Man Who Loved Beer
We Never Argue
N.O
The Saturday Option
Caterpillar
The Militant
Scamper
All Smiles and Mariachi
The Old Gold Shoe
The Distance from Her to There
Up With People
Your Fucking Sunny Day
Give Me Your Love (Love Song)
I've Been Lonely for So Long
Crawl Away.

no "Daily Growl" = no way

Gotta have You Masculine You. (You and your masculine you, forever benched, sitting by the dirty window')

If I'd compiled it tonight, "Garf" would have been on there.

"Daily Growl" just missed out.