that's really nice, love the way the drums start skittering to life around the 14-minute (!) mark
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
incidentally Mr. M is probably my favorite Lambchop album (that or Is a Woman)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Mr. M is amazing, such a warm album.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
this last song meanders a lot but the rest of the record (which mostly, basically sounds the same) is beautiful and less aimless
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
aoty then
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Like this!
― djh, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Edd Hurt, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Less alt country, more Coupler: an exciting development. New song is great, too.
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
Wow, this new single is brilliant. I liked Mr M but this is something really special. Hope the rest of the album is similar.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Very surprising, but loving this. Who knew Lambchop would go Alva Noto on us?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
Fantastic.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
What do I need to know about Coupler?
― djh, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
That's what I'd like to know!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
I have been doing my research and Flotus appears to be Michelle Obama's Twitter handle. Perhaps this didn't need stating.
― djh, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
You don't say. But good on you, Miss Marple :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Coupler is longtime Lambchopper Ryan Norris' solo project. Three albums, all fantastic.
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
I sort of think of Coupler's music as "unsentimental kosmische," if that makes sense.
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
This track is flippin' amazing
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 11 August 2016 07:11 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/j58iHJU.png
― just sayin, Thursday, 11 August 2016 08:07 (seven years ago) link
burn
― Wimmels, Thursday, 11 August 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
This could have been such a great song. Without that dumb fucking drum machine!
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
i hate real drums
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
you guys should move into an apartment together
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/67/6722/1VUA100Z/posters/the-odd-couple-jack-lemmon-walter-matthau-1968.jpg
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Based on this, apparently:
https://soundcloud.com/thirdmanrecords/coupler-invention-4-silenzio-sadak-in-search-of-the-waters-of-oblivion-blue-room-sessions
― djh, Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Hadn't realised there were so many Lambchop tour CDs.
Any particularly good?
― djh, Sunday, 21 August 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Blood On The Knobs, Monday, 22 August 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
"unsentimental kosmische" is awesome. Well done.
― Blood On The Knobs, Monday, 22 August 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
whole album is pretty great. obviously some new sonic wrinkles, but still very much a Lambchop record.
― tylerw, Monday, 22 August 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
So, has anybody pre-ordered the wine box version of the album?
http://cityslang.frocksteady.com/shop/music/flotus-box.html
― djh, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
Last night's drunkenly compiled "Best of ..."
The Old Fat RobinThe Man Who Loved BeerWe Never ArgueN.OThe Saturday OptionCaterpillarThe MilitantScamperAll Smiles and MariachiThe Old Gold ShoeThe Distance from Her to ThereUp With PeopleYour Fucking Sunny DayGive Me Your Love (Love Song)I've Been Lonely for So LongCrawl Away.
― djh, Monday, 29 August 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
no "Daily Growl" = no way
― Ban Lencowink (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link
Gotta have You Masculine You. (You and your masculine you, forever benched, sitting by the dirty window')
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
If I'd compiled it tonight, "Garf" would have been on there.
"Daily Growl" just missed out.
― djh, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTYc9Uf9WE
― djh, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
Amazed that the Flotus wine box is still available.
Need it to sell out (to remove temptation).
― djh, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
A friend sent me his Lambchop Top 20 (slightly over a CD-R):
The Daily GrowlInterruptedCigarettiquetteAll Smiles And MariachiSomething's Going OnSoaky In The PooperThe Man Who Loved BeerI'm A Stranger HereUp With PeopleThe Old Gold ShoeNashville ParentYou Masculine YouUtiThe New Cobweb SummerIs A WomanLet's Go BowlingMoody Fucker Your Life As A Sequel (fast version)The Old Matchbook TrickLife's Little Tragedy
― djh, Thursday, 29 September 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Thursday, 29 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYY6xdJ8Bk
well, that's certainly not business as usual.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Monday, 10 October 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 20 October 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/27/499145153/first-listen-lambchop-flotus
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 October 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
unusually aesthetically similar to the new Bon Iver so far
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
i like it
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Oops. They played You Masculine You, not Up With People.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 27 October 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
new album a bit of a letdown after that amazing first track
― Wimmels, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
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).
― djh, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 27 October 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/27/lambchops-kurt-wagner-i-wanted-to-make-a-record-my-wife-would-like
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
lol great URL
― tylerw, Thursday, 27 October 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link