LambchopBest Lambchop Albums Ranked

Showtunes

loudandquiet

9.0

“Few bands make it to their 14th album, and fewer still make it without becoming parodies of themselves, or at least retreating into the pipe-and-slippers familiarity of self-repetition. All of which makes Showtunes, the 14th from Lambchop, even more impressive – here is a restless, dense, audacious and genuinely experimental record that, despite sounding not quite like anything the band have made ”

FLOTUS

loudandquiet

9.0

“Over the 22 years that Lambchop have been making records, the only consistent presence in an ever-shifting line-up has been Kurt Wagner, whose richly rumbling, molasses-thick baritone has become his band’s most instantly identifiable component, and the rock around which personnel, instrumentation and even genres have come and gone. It therefore initially feels like wilful self-sabotage that Lambc”

Nixon (Reissue)

pitchfork

8.3

“When Nixon was released in 2000, it was immediately enshrined by the British music press, though most people in America continued to have no idea who Lambchop were. Merge's 2xCD reissue of the Nashville country/soul troupe's sumptuous fifth collection also offers the White Sessions 1998: How I Met Cat Power, a set by singer Kurt Wagner on French radio.”

Mr. M

pitchfork

8.3

“Kurt Wagner and co.'s masterful 11th album is one of the best to emerge from their strange, modest universe.”

What Another Man Spills

pitchfork

8.2

“On this sparkling reissue of an early career highlight, the act that billed itself as “the most fucked-up country band in Nashville” revels in the ecstasy of influence.”

The Bible

pitchfork

8.1

“The latest from Kurt Wagner’s shapeshifting group is its darkest yet: a haunting ode to everyday American pain and the small ways we make it through.”