• Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Aug 22, 2006
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11

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  1. Cables
    Sep 2, 2006
    6
    like many critics pointed out, it's lyrically briliant yet it's ac arrangements make it alarmingly dull at times.
  2. AdilO.
    Sep 4, 2006
    9
    Soothing and mysterious. The kind of music you'd want to spin after a hard day's work.
  3. carlosv
    Aug 21, 2006
    9
    incredible, like all that they do
  4. ChadS
    Aug 25, 2006
    10
    Now I have to buy all the music Lambchop made after "How I Quit Smoking". "Beers Before the Barbican" is pretty great; so is "Crackers". No, not great. Brilliant. Smog is great. Kurt Wagner is a little better, with the exception of "Dress Sexy at my Funeral". I write songs and "Damaged" gives me a massive inferiority complex. This is a really great album. I mean brilliant. It's "If Now I have to buy all the music Lambchop made after "How I Quit Smoking". "Beers Before the Barbican" is pretty great; so is "Crackers". No, not great. Brilliant. Smog is great. Kurt Wagner is a little better, with the exception of "Dress Sexy at my Funeral". I write songs and "Damaged" gives me a massive inferiority complex. This is a really great album. I mean brilliant. It's "If You're Feeling Sinister"-brilliant. Expand
  5. ChrisK
    Aug 27, 2006
    10
    As consistantly brilliant and beautiful as "How I Quit Smoking," which is saying quite a lot. It's the best record I've heard this year.
  6. StevenB
    Aug 23, 2006
    9
    Transcendent and worthy of their fantastic cataluge. One of the better records of 2006 as a whole.
  7. madsl
    Aug 28, 2006
    8
    their last double album whammy was a disappointment to me, but now the mighty kurt wagner is back with some of the most consistent, thorough and refined songwriting of his career. The man is a poetic visionary who deserves all the credit in the world! Not as melodically entrancing as Nixon but that's a minor quibble...

Awards & Rankings

Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 28
  2. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. 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."
  2. Lambchop have long been one of America’s greatest bands, and Damaged is their greatest achievement.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    Even more subdued than usual. [12 Aug 2006, p.32]