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Is a Woman is a very quiet album best heard loud. On a musical landscape of sophisticated, uncluttered melancholy, Kurt Wagner’s lyrics are given unprecedented space, allowing every guttural detail of every single word to be heard, revealing densely poetic texts as intimate as they were incisive, as comic as they were confessional. To discover the true spirit of Is a Woman, however, one need only listen to the remarkable “My Blue Wave,” one of the band’s finest recordings to date. Here, Wagner depicts a world of helpless tragedy in which comfort can nonetheless be found in the smallest of gestures, as he journeys from the contented sight of his pets—“You lay around the house… Just bones and squirrels inside your head”—to recollections of a devastating phone call from friend and bandmate William Tyler: “And William called and tried to tell me / That his sister’s boyfriend has just died / He’s not sure what to do / And I’m not sure what to tell him he should do / Sometimes William, we’re just screwed / In my blue wave.” Fifteen years later, Lambchop continue to confound and astound in equal measures, but this startlingly private song captures the magic of Is a Woman at its most distilled. With their sound consistently shifting and surprising, the band’s line-up has morphed and adapted repeatedly since then, but the lingering mood of lachrymose but compassionate elegance of “My Blue Wave” helps explain why this extraordinary, idiosyncratic record is now considered to be one of the band’s finest. As Wagner himself asks on “Bugs”: “Think of things and how they got this way / Way above the rest / Isn’t this the fucking best?”
Tracklist:
- The Daily Growl
- The New Cobweb Summer
- My Blue Wave
- I Can Hardly Spell My Name
- Autumn’s Vicar
- Flick
- Caterpillar
- D. Scott Parsley
- Bugs
- The Old Matchbook Trick
- Is A Woman
- The Gettysburg Address (Bonus Track)
- Backstreet Girl (Bonus Track)
- The Fadeaway Jumper (Bonus Track)
- Flub (Bonus Track)
- The Gusher (Bonus Track)
- The Puppy And The Leaf (Bonus Track)
- This Corrosion (Bonus Track)
- Uti (Bonus Track)
UPC: 673855020419
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 3.3.17
Format: Vinyl Record
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