| Lambchop / Nixon |
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| Album: | Nixon | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Lambchop | Added: | 08/2014 | |
| Label: | Merge Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-08-29 | Pull Date: | 2014-10-31 |
| Week Ending: | 2 Nov | 26 Oct | 19 Oct | 12 Oct | 5 Oct | 28 Sep | 14 Sep | 7 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 22, 2017: | Reckless Burnin' The Old Gold Shoe | 4. | Oct 30, 2014: | Meow Up With People | |
| 2. | Nov 04, 2015: | Home on the Range The Book I Haven't Read | 5. | Oct 23, 2014: | The Sunset Life Up With People | |
| 3. | Oct 03, 2015: | Music Casserole The Saturday Option (Live), Up With People | 6. | Oct 21, 2014: | funk to folk Up With People |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2014-08-23 | ||
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Still shockingly underrated even after two brilliant decades, Nashville’s genre-bending country weirdos are getting the canonization treatment with Merge Records’ deluxe reissue of their 2000 album. Featuring more than a dozen members (+ guests and an orchestra), this presents Lambchop at their biggest and most opulent. The album pulls heavily toward soul and slow R&B, with frontman Kurt Wagner often delivering his signature surreal lyrics in a surprising falsetto. Befitting one of the most quietly amazing bands in America, every Lambchop album has its passionate champions (I’m a How I Quit Smoking devotee), so if you haven’t fallen in love with the band yet, this is as good as any a place to start. Favorites: 1-1, 1-4, 1-8, 2-2. FCC WARNING: 1-2, 1-7. Disc 1 (The Album) 1. *(6:21)—Slow and lush all the way. Absolutely blissful. 2. (4:19)—FCC (s***). Medium-slow, funky, very pretty. 3. (5:59)—More medium-slow funk. Bright and joyous, with Wagner singing entirely in falsetto. 4. *(5:59)—A classic Lambchop track, the closest the band has had to a hit in their career. Uplifting, builds to epic levels, features a gospel choir. 5. (5:39)—Slow, toward lounge. Really nice, watery guitar tone. 6. (3:39)—Mid-tempo, very funky, sexy, with more falsetto. 7. (4:20)—FCC (“I’ve been a d**k”). Slow, wordy country-soul. 8. *(5:45)—Slow. Grand orchestral intro. Widescreen, spine-tingling country. 9. (4:52)—Slow, smoky, takes a turn toward the ominous. 10. (2:54)—Medium-fast. Another dark tune—subdued, driving noir-rock. Disc 2 (White Sessions 1998: How I Met Cat Power) Kurt Wagner does live, stripped-down Lambchop songs. Vocals, guitar, and tape loops. 1. (4:51)—Slow, spare, with nonintrusive tape loops. 2. *(4:58)—Tender, minimal, soulful version of “Up With People.” Very nice. 3. (4:29)—FCC (“I’ve been a d**k”). Accompanied by a tape recording of steel guitar. 4. (5:18)—Starts with grainy spoken word recording and old electronic beeps. 5. (4:35)—Song from the album What Another Man Spills. Slow, haunting, with high pitched tape drones. | ||
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