For more than 20 years, Kurt Wagner and his revolving cast have continued honing Lambchop’s idiosyncratic, charming Southern yarn-spinning. There’s a new album on the horizon, the Modest Mousy titled OH (ohio), though the 11 tracks were recorded in the band’s Nashville hometown, not the Midwest. Some titles: “National Talk Like a Pirate Day,” “Popeye,” and “Slipped Dissolved And Loosed.” You can listen to the latter today: The languid pastoral involves the topography of a mind, lost balance, a blackbird, a shallow pool, and Tony Curtis, among other things. We also have OH (ohio)‘s homey album art, which might be NSFW. Depends on your boss’s stance on representational painting.
There’s also a live version at the the band’s MySpace. Contrast, compare. Lambchop is currently pianist Tony Crow, guitarists Alex McManus and William Tyler, bassist Matt Swanson, keyboardist/guitarist Ryan Norris, and drummer Scott Martin, but Wagner’s going on a solo tour this fall, around the release of OH (ohio). More on that soon.
OH (ohio) is out 10/7 on Merge. It will come packaged like this:
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It gives me Tindersticks vibes, but I automatically like it better than the scattered cuts I’ve heard post-Nixon.
Brilliant. Sounds like “I hope you’re sitting down” but with the maturity and visualness of “Is a woman.” (is visualness a word? It is now.)
LAMBCHOP is an acquired taste….and i acquired it a long time ago……..can’t wait to hear the rest………you got to come out and tour the west…….
The wait is nearly over… Pure genius if you ask me.
My favourite band can do no wrong.Please extend the UK tour to the North.
Maturing like an oak smoked old red.
They are only the greatest band on the face of the planet! Well, my favorite at least. Knowing that Lambchop are around gives me the same happiness that I had knowing that Jordan still played in the NBA.
Once again Kurt has stopped me in my tracks. The man has a voice that you can do no other than stop and listen. I just love the way he can make simple things sound deep and deep thoughts simple. Simply the greatest singer/ songwriter around.