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Damaged is a transcendent record - poetic, mysterious, witty, wise and at times so musically grand that it changes the colour of a room and the weight of the air.
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You could spend an age listing and describing the musical wealth of Damaged... Better just to listen to it, soak it all in, than fail with words.
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90'Damaged' is a hugely welcome addition to Lambchop's now frighteningly impressive back catalogue, and an album with few limitations.
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90An album of colossal strength and maturity. [Sep 2006, p.104]
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90A profound melancholy suffuses the elegant and often sublime Damaged.
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90Lambchop have long been one of America's greatest bands, and Damaged is their greatest achievement.
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86Wonderful. [#21, p.94]
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Like the 2002 album Is A Woman, Damaged scales back for an opaque set of heartbroken songs inspired by, in Wagner's words, "deeply personal experience."
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Though the tracks are lengthy, they're not indulgent but patient, moving at the pace of Frank Sinatra's September of My Years (1965) rather than the National's Alligator (2005).
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Damaged... rises to the same dizzying heights achieved by their last few long-players.
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80A brave, beautiful record. [Sep 2006, p.76]
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This ranks with the best work of one of America's most original musical visionaries.
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80The arrangements here are written specifically with a touring quartet in mind, adding ever greater layers of haunting melancholy and soaring grace. [Sep 2006, p.109]
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Lazy Saturday mornings are meant to be had with this album.
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80Are they a country band playing alt.rock or an alt.rock band playing country? These questions are pointless. They are simply and sublimely Lambchop, and we are lucky to have them.
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80Damaged excels in what Lambchop does best, which is to gather up a dozen-plus musicians and get them to play as little as possible. [#73, p.98]
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Damaged is quintessential Wagner: a ponderous, carved-wood gut-punch of a record that finds hope in the mundane details of everyday life, even as the big worldly picture comes crashing down with alarming force.
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70"Damaged" is as nuanced, temperate and contemplative as its predecessor.
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Another solid if somewhat interchangeable album. [Summer 2006, p.82]
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70The Nashville crew's sound has slowly aged from alt-country to Stax-styled soul and now brooding ballads. [Jul/Aug 2006, p.122]
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The album rewards multiple listens with its sonic depth and subtle structural beauty. It has followed Lamchop tradition and evolved from its predecessor, but it lacks the unruly attitude that makes the band distinct.
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68Damaged is lovely but dull in spots, lacking the fuck-all adventurousness of previous albums.
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Damaged isn't the most tuneful record Wagner and company have made.
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Even more subdued than usual. [12 Aug 2006, p.32]
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60Kurt Wagner's conversational croak is, charitably put, an acquired taste. [Sep 2006, p.106]
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60Even though the songwriting's tight, the uniformly delicate touch of adult contemporary arrangements will leave you struggling to stay awake till the album's end.
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It never really builds steam until the end, when it is almost too late.
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50It sounds half-heard no matter how many times you hear it. [Sep 2006, p.142]
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AdilO.9Soothing and mysterious. The kind of music you'd want to spin after a hard day's work.
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Cables6like many critics pointed out, it's lyrically briliant yet it's ac arrangements make it alarmingly dull at times.
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