jueves, 5 de febrero de 2009

Lambchop: "OH (Ohio)" (Merge, 2008)


Lambchop return with this, what might be counted as their tenth official studio album (if you consider Aw C'mon and No You C'mon as a single text), and it sees a resumption of the energetic song arrangement that the band seemed to abandon after their landmark country-soul LP Nixon.

OH (Ohio) never strays quite so far from the Americana template as that record did - and you're unlikely to detect a Curtis Mayfield influence on this one - but with uptempo cuts like 'National Talk Like A Pirate Day', 'Popeye' and 'Sharing A Gibson With Martin Luther King Jr.' Kurt Wagner and co. sound like they've broken free of the hushed simplicity that's been a part of their work for the past few years. The slow jams are still of the very highest order though: 'Of Raymond' features gorgeous, jazzy horn arrangements, while 'Slipped Dissolved And Loosed' is somewhere between The Band and Glenn Campbell, which is probably a good fit for Lambchop.


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