Lambchop

Pitchfork Best 2012 on Lambchop

#50 Lambchop’s two decades of graceful countrypolitan creak are marked by the deliberate pace of the small orchestra’s music-- the slow strings and trickling guitars, the nonplussed rhythms, and the steady voice of frontman Kurt Wagner...full article here

Pop Matters Best 2012 on Lambchop

#48 For a band as plodding as Lambchop, they sure know how to pack a punch. Still going strong after nearly 20 years, Kurt Wagner and Co. start with the basics: slowly strummed guitars, lilting piano notes, and drum brushstrokes, add Wagner’s baroque voice to tell oddball tales of the ordinary and then turn the whole affair into a startling cacophony of wonder...full article here

Treble Best of 2012 on Lambchop

#49 Kurt Wagner’s discography with Lambchop is, in gestalt form, a widely underrated and extremely rewarding series of works...full article here

Pitchfork Best Albums on Lambchop

Album "Mr. M" scored 8.3

Kurt Wagner and co.'s masterful 11th album is one of the best to emerge from their strange, modest universe. Nothing on Mr. M is designed to pop, not in the conventional sense of the word. To describe...