Lambchop

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTYc9Uf9WE

Amazed that the Flotus wine box is still available.

Need it to sell out (to remove temptation).

A friend sent me his Lambchop Top 20 (slightly over a CD-R):

The Daily Growl
Interrupted
Cigarettiquette
All Smiles And Mariachi
Something's Going On
Soaky In The Pooper
The Man Who Loved Beer
I'm A Stranger Here
Up With People
The Old Gold Shoe
Nashville Parent
You Masculine You
Uti
The New Cobweb Summer
Is A Woman
Let's Go Bowling
Moody Fucker
Your Life As A Sequel (fast version)
The Old Matchbook Trick
Life's Little Tragedy

The Old Gold Shoe

Popular choice. Prob in my bottom 3 from Nixon.

Went through their catalogue the other day. Nixon is quality almost end to end (The Butcher Boy the only real disappointment), a real apotheosis of everything they'd done up till that point. Then you get to Is A Woman and it's like wtf what alternate universe did this come from? It is just implausibly mature (the occasional lyric about shitting on a hillside notwithstanding), it gives me this weird feeling that everything else they'd done till then, any other music I've ever listened to in fact, is trivial and worthless. And then they just shrug and go back to business as usual. Lilting tunes, flippant lyrics, gently chugging down a quiet backwater. I've tried, but nothing since Is A Woman has gripped me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYY6xdJ8Bk

well, that's certainly not business as usual.

I don't think anything tops The Hustle but am really enjoying this album an awful lot. The opener is another one of those "Was that song really on for 12 minutes?" numbers.

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/27/499145153/first-listen-lambchop-flotus

unusually aesthetically similar to the new Bon Iver so far

i like it

Aside: I’ve been listening to a lot of college radio and I’ve really enjoyed a weekly pop punk and emo morning show. A few weeks ago, the host of the show played Up With People and said they just discovered Lamchop and LOVE them. I thought this was pretty cool considering the host is probably 20 and Lambchop always felt like a band that would be difficult to get into outside their time.

Oops. They played You Masculine You, not Up With People.

new album a bit of a letdown after that amazing first track

Persist with it, Wimmels. It's definitely a "grower".

I must admit, I'd like it more if it wasn't Lambchop (who I kind of think as a musical accompaniment to alcohol).

Really not sure what to make of this album. I loved the single and there are some lovely moments throughout. It just felt like hard work going through it all in one go.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/27/lambchops-kurt-wagner-i-wanted-to-make-a-record-my-wife-would-like

lol great URL

On first listen, I like the album but "The Hustle" seems to tower over it. I wonder if it won't wind up feeling like a transitional work on the way to greater work that marries these new ingredients to Wagner's strengths a little more consistently.

Some of this is great - "In Care of ...", "JFK", "The Writer", "The Hustle". Much of the rest seems frustratingly out of reach to me ...

I didn't listen to any of the preview songs as I like to absorb their albums as a whole. So I was surprised by all the vocal processing and I can't get past it. Drives me absolutely nuts. I think there are good songs here but I don't know if I'll find a way into them. I like all the other glitchy electronic touches and beats - kind of reminds me of The Notwist at points - but the vocal effects turn me off as much here as they do everywhere else.

Kurt put a CD together for the latest Uncut. Lots of good stuff but damn the final Tom House track just near made me buckle at the knees.

Binging hard on Lambchop the last week or two. I don't know why, but I find them immensely binge-able. I worked through all their albums about a decade ago and couldn't stop myself from listening to almost everything on repeat. I burned myself out pretty well, which seems like it should be easy, but I'm really enjoying myself right now. FLOTUS is holding up well on repeat listens, and I'm really enjoying the Aw C'mon/No, You C'mon duo right now.