you guys should move into an apartment together
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 12 August 2016 21:25 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Hadn't realised there were so many Lambchop tour CDs.
Any particularly good?
― djh, Sunday, 21 August 2016 21:00 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
"unsentimental kosmische" is awesome. Well done.
― Blood On The Knobs, Monday, 22 August 2016 14:20 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
no "Daily Growl" = no way
― Ban Lencowink (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 10:43 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTYc9Uf9WE
― djh, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:36 (eight 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 (eight 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
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.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 28 October 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Some of this is great - "In Care of ...", "JFK", "The Writer", "The Hustle". Much of the rest seems frustratingly out of reach to me ...
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 28 October 2016 09:54 (seven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 28 October 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Sunday, 30 October 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
i love this record so far but i get it feeling inaccessible. i guess i also miss being sort of able to understand kurt wagner lol
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
"relatives #2" is prob my favorite song that is not the opener, the way it evolves from this cut-up collagist thing into a brief relaxed disco jam
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
I've listened to the new album twice today and it's so, so good.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Thursday, 3 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
Much as I love the new album, I'd also be quite pleased if they released an un-processed vocal/"typical" Lambchop version. I realise this is kind of harsh/conservative.
― djh, Thursday, 3 November 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
My copy arrived today, have listened twice (though was in the kitchen for most of one of those times) and really like it so far. Relaxed and unhurried. 'The Hustle' is wonderful.
― michaellambert, Monday, 7 November 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Kurt did a solo in-store tonight; he has this clever little box which does the auto tune stuff in real time as he sings; I wasn't expecting that, for whatever reason (I don't pay much attention to music tech), and he was really, really good.
The more I listen to the new LP the more I like it.
― Tim, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm really enjoying it, too. It feels the most thematically and sonically 'complete' since Is A Woman. (It's also just dawned on me that that title isn't a rhetorical question.)
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 9 November 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Live session here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0812zyr
Think it started at 2:09.
― djh, Thursday, 10 November 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
I'm on a bit of a roll tonight. Haven't paid much attention to new musical releases in the past couple of months. Listening to this album now. I'm at "Howe" at the moment, hoping it gets a little better, melody-wise. The first song was classic. The rest is just OK so far.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
I'm totally down that this may be a grower.
But previous Lambchop albums didn't need that pre-designation for me.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
Slightly annoyed in not understanding Wagner's lyrics. Musical arrangements haven't been that interesting to sustain me, so far.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/2017/01/new-music-lambchop-when-you-were-mine-prince-cover/very loose prince cover
― na (NA), Friday, 27 January 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
i listened to the new album in the car on the german autobahn when the night fell. really great songs even the voice treatment didn't turn me off. the whole thing is very relaxed and quite rhythmic.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 13 March 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
i saw them live a couple of weeks ago and had no idea that the drummer was dude from wye oak. the show, like the album, was pretty but fairly dull.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
I heard a rumor that I'm sadOr at least that I feel badWhoever said that doesn't knowI'm pretty sure that I don't know
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
(From the other thread) There's a new version of "The Hustle"???
― djh, Saturday, 8 July 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link