Lambchop

delighted that they're pushing further in this direction, new song is lovely

Sigh. Bye, Lambchop. This direction sucks.

the two genders

yayyy

i wanted another record in the flotus mold with slighter tighter songs and.. seems like that's happening

slightly* lol

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

preset* doing great today

the vocoder feels a little better-integrated here, also

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NxdNERUGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPERKl54QBY

oh i LOVE this one

dig this

the section from about 4:25 onwards is especially lovely

I'll never get past the electronic vocal bullshit. It's a shame; the band sounds great.

absolutely. why do acts i love use f*cking autotunes. though on the low album it somehow worked.

you're both nerds

Makes them sound like Dntel in 2002

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.

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

It seems a bit passé, no?

(the track that was posted)

i love this weird underwater soft rock album

this is very different.... but very good?

To stick with the water metaphors, it washed over me and left behind virtually no jetsam whatsoever.

Can't stand the vocals, it's like someone has peed in my glass of water.

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"

oh my god y’all it’s just a vocoder

^^ 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.

damn this album is beautiful

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!!!!

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

Yeah, it's great. It demonstrates huge strides in them embracing this style that the last album only suggested ("The Hustle" aside)

"the lasting last of you" is just... what even is that

The harmonica solo on the opener is my fave moment of anything so far this year

i love that solo so much

this album is maybe the closest in texture to the donkey kong country soundtrack out of anything i've ever heard

oh my god y’all it’s just a vocoder

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 22 March 2019 13:09 (three days ago) Bookmark

there's no just here.

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

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.

the opener on this is like a warm bath to me

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.

"the lasting last of you" is just... what even is that

― 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.

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

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!

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.

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

Just got back home in Houston after traveling in Japan for a week. I had loaded lots of new music on the Nano, but the only thing i listened to the entire trip was This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) on repeat. It was perfect for airports and wandering unfamiliar streets. Dozing on the plane and waking up to it. The album just gets better and unfolds itself the more it plays.

I enjoyed FLOTUS a lot, but I agree that this beats it easily.

god i LOVE this album, warm bath otm

still quite possibly my aoty