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Aw C'Mon
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 4 votes
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Album Info
Label: Merge
Release Date: 17 February 2004
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alt-Country
Summary
Recorded at the same time and released on the same day, 'Aw C'Mon' and 'No, You C'Mon' are actually intended as separate albums, rather than two parts of a double album. The Nashville String Machine lends strings to each.
Also By This Artist: Damaged Is A Woman Nixon No, You C'Mon OH (Ohio)
Also On The Web: Fan Site Lambchop @ Merge Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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Alternative Press
As is the case whenever [Kurt] Wagner's velvet croon wraps itself around a night that ends so late it's already morning... there really isn't a critic in the world who can touch him. [combined review of both discs; Mar 2003, p.94]
Entertainment Weekly
Judicious distillation might have provided sharper focus, but this is an appealingly ambitious sprawl. [combined review of both discs; 27 Feb 2004, p.99]
Stylus Magazine
As ever Wagner’s voice is rich and warm, the instrument of a faltering singer that just gets better with age, cracked and croaked and delivering lyrics with a strange phrasing that makes the most indecipherable and idiosyncratic observation take on a wealth of meanings for the listener depending how they first, or last, hear it. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >Delusions of Adequacy
Throughout the two albums, Lambchop effortlessly and repeatedly cross country, rock, soul, jazz, and cinematic borders. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >Uncut
Wagner has achieved a fusion of the outgoing, string-driven country-soul heard on 2000's Nixon... and the reluctant intimacy of 2002's low-key Is A Woman. [combined review of both discs; Feb 2004, p. 68]
Playlouder
Admittedly, there's not exactly the strictest of divides between the two, although 'Aw C'mon' is arguably the more upbeat of the pair.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
Aw Cmon is the most relaxed of the two discs, the most instantly pleasing, the most Lambchop-like, boasting the strongest lyrics of the two CDs.
Read Full Review >Blender
Keeps the orchestral Americana on an ambient, after-hours simmer. [Mar 2004, p.123]
Logo
This is deep, rich, slightly unnerving and very very beautiful music. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
The albums are interchangeable, neither one being the stylistic leap that was Is A woman in comparison to its predecessor, Nixon. [combined review of both discs; Mar 2004, p.112]
Mojo
[These albums] are as much of a pendulum swing from Is A Woman as Is A Woman was from Nixon. [combined review of both discs; Feb 2004, p.90]
Spin
Over the course of 24 tracks, we get taut grooves set on Al Green cruise control, lots of havin'-fun-in-the-studio byplay, and the occasional spritz of rude fuzz-box gutiar to give all the gold-leaf detailing some shape. [combined review of both discs; Mar 2004, p.97]
Pitchfork
To say one of these albums is better than the other is basically beside the point-- anyone who buys one will certainly want the other, and both are fairly comparable as far as quality is concerned, anyway.
Read Full Review >ShakingThrough.net
If Aw C'mon pales in comparison, it's due to a pronounced downbeat atmosphere and an over-reliance on cutesy, clunky titles.
Read Full Review >Dusted Magazine
It doesn’t take long for the characters to come alive the way ...Is a Woman’s seemed too exhausted to. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
A cohesive collection of brisk, poppy songs in the accessible mode of the band's 2000 breakthrough Nixon.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
Out of these two good albums, a great single album is fighting to break out. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >Trouser Press
AwCmon is the stronger of the two, with a trio of outstanding instrumentals acting as the backbone for a suite of typically moody songs.
Read Full Review >Filter
A double album slough of easy listening instrumentals. [combined review of both discs; #9, p.108]
Tiny Mix Tapes
Although I quite like some of the tracks here, overall there just isn't enough here to keep me interested. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Notice the way whole songs skulk past without you ever noticing; how half the material here is ornate but unmemorable muzak, with all the emotional force of a feather. [combined review of both discs]
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Johnny V gave it a9:
It's important to note that these albums were created as the soundtrack to the silent movie "Sunrise" directed by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu). Wagner started an expiremental challenge to write a song a day, during which time he was asked to produce a new soundtrack for a rerelease of the film. So, to refer to the music as background music is quite accurate. I'm a fan of the band, so i'm biased, but thinking of the music of both albums in this context makes each album even enjoyable for me. It's great (but challenging) stuff.
Decepticon Pom gave it an 8:
Must admit I can't help but regard these two albums as one beautiful double player. Not normally what I would go for but an unexpected delight and my album of the year so far. Laid back, sometimes even ambient, yet rollocking in places, this was my most surprising discovery of 2004.
andre s gave it a 9:
Almost impossible to catergorize it's so varied. Difficult enough deciding which disc you'd like to listen to first; even after you've made your decision you'll be sorely tempted to play the disc that's just finished again. Superb.
mark f gave it a 6:
I have nothing to compare this to, except "No, You Come On", issued simultaneously, since these are the first two Lambchop albums that I've bought. This album seems much more sluggish than "N,YCO". There's nothing inherently wrong with the songs, but the string section seems overdone, and many songs sound similar. If you are going to buy one album, I'd highly recommend the companion piece. This album is so completely inoffensive that sometimes it sounds like it would be perfect background music for a two-year old's birthday party or maybe your 90-year-old grandma's. You can tell there's talent here but it's much clearer on "No, You Come On."
