Damaged - Lambchop
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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the tenth album for the very large Nashville band led by Kurt Wagner.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 28
  2. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. 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.
  2. 80
    A brave, beautiful record. [Sep 2006, p.76]
  3. Damaged... rises to the same dizzying heights achieved by their last few long-players.
  4. Even more subdued than usual. [12 Aug 2006, p.32]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. ChrisK
    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.
  2. ChadS
    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 You're Feeling Sinister"-brilliant. Expand
  3. madsl
    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... Expand
  4. Cables
    6
    like many critics pointed out, it's lyrically briliant yet it's ac arrangements make it alarmingly dull at times.

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