Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
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Artist: LambchopEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-08
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- Interrupted
- The Saturday Option
- Shucks
- Give Me Your Love (Love Song)
- Life #2
- Scamper
- It's Not Alright
- N.O.
- I've Been Lonely For So Long
- Magnificient Obsession
- King Of Nothing Never
- The Theme From The Neil Miller Show
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Music Review: Worthwhile that I gave it another chance
Rating: 4 Stars
Lambchop's first two albums I Hope You're Sitting Down and How I Quit Smoking, though completely ignored everywhere at the time of their release, were nonetheless a totally unique combination of satirical (at times coarse) lyrics and soft, though unplanned, orchestral music that sounded like nothing else that had come. It was too virginal to resemble orchestral 1960s pop, but was exactly the opposite of the noisy tuneless grunge dominating the charts.
On buying "What Another Man Spills" I was dissatified after vaguely absorbing it because so much of it appeared to be just retro 1970s soul. First listens revealed none of Kurt Wagner's amazing lyrical insight, and much dense drumming with a 1970s type production that became dissatisfying once I saw the magic behind Lambchop's first two albums and their seemingly random orchestrations.
"What Another Man Spills" really was more upbeat than the first two Lambchop albums, but repeated listening shows that actually this is due to the much greater emphasis on jazz rather than mock-classical instrumentation (vibraphone rather than clarinet, for example). At the same time there was no evidence that Lambchop had given up the spontaneous simplicity from which their first two masterpieces were built. Thus, although "Give Me Your Love (Love Song)" did indeed sound like jazzy pop, Deanna Varagona's otherworldly voice (sounding like it came from underwater), the strings served as an ominous undertoe almost like Kurt Wagner's lyrics on parts of Smoking. "Shucks" showed both the similarities and changes perfectly: the guitars were largely replaced by vibraphones and horns, but the voice and ominous arrangements were still the same. The funky "Scamper" was still oddly dark especially when Wagner sings about a person operated on after a serious accident (or is it??), whilst "I've Been Lonely For So Long" was almost catchy precisely due to Kurt's positively eerie vocal.
"It's Not Alright" was actually catchy but ultimately not so rewarding becuse the tribal rhythms detracted from Wagner's vocals, yet the love-obsessed "Magnificent Obsession" really was Lambchop moving away from folk pretentions and showing really their unique, unclassifiable sound of soft, spontaneous orchestration. Whilst "King Of Nothing Never" showed that the band's soul pretentions really are not valid owing to Kurt's folk-poet vocal style: it could never be mistaken for 70s sould no matter how dense the horns were.
On the whole, an album that may seem like a sellout but is not exactly that. This is a unique band developing in its own way, even if losing some of its obscure quality that made it fascinating.
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