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Uncut

Another mature masterpiece from America's finest. [Album Of The Month, March 2002, p.94]

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Playlouder

Minimal and huge at the same time, desperately sad in places, thought-provoking and ethereal in others, this is an incredible milestone of a record.

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Ink Blot Magazine

Every song contains four or five things that will just whip your head around in disbelief.

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Nude As The News

For all its minimalist musical approach and inherent gloominess, Is A Woman over time proves a creative masterstroke.

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Magnet

This soggy, after-hours feel also permeates Is A Woman, although the ensemble sound has been pared to the bone. [#53, p.83]

Dot Music

'Is A Woman' is a deep, rewarding, frustrating, baffling, engaging experience then, an album that drifts away from you just when you're getting hold of it.

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All Music Guide

By focusing less on quotidian (i.e., boring) experiences of the proletariat and more on less-tangible allusions to death, troubled romance, and loneliness, Wagner's music is simply more approachable and meaningful, if still hard to puzzle out in its specific intent.

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PopMatters

A strange delight of a record.

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Neumu.net

Lounge-rock for world-weary sophisticates.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

As an experiment in consistency, Woman is an unqualified success, but it's hard not to occasionally miss the unpredictability of the past.

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Blender

What Led Zeppelin did for bombast, Lambchop try to do for delicacy. [Apr/May 2002, p.114]

Alternative Press

It's clever, literate and pretty, but also boring as hell if you don't flip off the lights, clamp on your headphones and concentrate. [May 2002, p.88]

New Musical Express

It's a brave and curious record that, as on 'Bugs', occasionally resembles Willie Nelson fronting Labradford.

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The Wire

A record that urges you to lean closer to the speakers in order to fully hear everything that is being played and sung. [#216, p.63]

Splendid

The album sounds full whether you're in the next room or sitting right beside the speakers. Details -- a horn here, a steel guitar there, a lilting piano figure that appears out of the ether -- fill every cranny in a sound that's still as spacious as Giant Sand's Southwestern soundtracks.

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Mojo

These gradual pleasures fly in the face of today's pop/rock hardsell, for sure, but inexorably you are drawn into Kurt's world. [Mar 2002, p.100]

Spin

Is a Woman finds Lambchop turning into America's Tindersticks, replacing songcraft with baroque digressions. [Mar 2002, p.134]

Rolling Stone

With repeated listens, what feels at first like unmelodic obduracy reveals some hidden charms.

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Trouser Press

While hardly bad... the album too often sounds as if the ceaseless invention that made Nixon so vibrant has been replaced by self-consciousness of the wrong sort.

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Pitchfork

Is a Woman is a disappointment.

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Q Magazine

One very minimal idea being stretched over 11 songs to the point that it starts to look very washed-out indeed.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

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calimeros mix gave it a9:
one of the greatest music's that they have

Matty M gave it a 9:
This is a slow, slow burn - especially if you're coming straight after the relative euphoria of Nixon. But give it a few listens and it'll sneak up and strangle you in it's relaxed, measured splendour.

Gav H. gave it a 9:
Just kept replaying it, however not as many times as Nixon

alex gave it a 9:
Best album of 2002 yet. Proof that less can be more.

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