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Feb 21, 2012Mostly, Mr. M is exemplary Lambchop because its so unmistakably Wagner's vision.
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Feb 28, 2012Dedicated to the late Vic Chesnutt, Mr. M will stand as one of Lambchop's finest, most cohesive, and easiest straight-through listens yet, despite its intermediate tendencies.
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Feb 10, 2012It is in this tension--the struggle to find hope and comfort quickly and the realization that you can't--that Mr. M exists and shines.
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Feb 21, 2012It's to Lambchop's credit that their music avoids comfortable resolutions. Instead, it hangs there, no moral, no judgment.
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Feb 24, 2012Mr. M is something to behold in its details: the kind of record that seems to open up gradually over time, graceful and pretty sure but brimming subcutaneously with many yet-undiscovered pleasures.
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Feb 21, 2012With Mr. M, the countrypolitan grits-glam continues.
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Mar 26, 2012While Mr. M consists of 11 allegedly different songs, the album has the unified feel of a single multi-movement suite.
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MojoFeb 27, 2012The songs on Mr. M might be mostly slow and beautiful but they don't have the drifting dreaminess. [Mar 2012, p.96]
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Feb 24, 2012It washes you in sound, and if you let that sound wash over you, what it does is exquisite.
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Feb 23, 2012It manages to sound familiar while sounding entirely new, all the while making it clear that this is a sound only Lambchop could create.
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Feb 23, 2012Mr. M is hitting me at exactly the right moment, because if the group's music can be comforting, moving, pretty and mystifying at once--this time it's especially so.
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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2012It is a precious reminder of Wagner's quietly incisive gifts. [Mar 2012, p.105]
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Feb 21, 2012It's one of the most affecting works to date from a brilliant, one-of-a-kind band.
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Feb 21, 2012At its worst this understated quality [astral rambling] produces the drear muzak of "Gar", but at its best ... it's sublime.
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Feb 21, 2012An understated kaleidoscope of beautiful arrangements, raw emotion and literate songwriting that is nothing less than moving.
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Feb 16, 2012Wagner's conflicting emotions are reflected in his band's fluid, conversational playing: restless yet sedate, wistful yet furious, the sound is still on the surface but teeming beneath.
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Feb 13, 2012On Lambchop's more ambitiously simple albums, such as Mr. M, that darkness is all the more affecting.
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UncutFeb 10, 2012Mr. M is bold in arts and surprisingly experimental. [Mar 2012, p.76]
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Feb 10, 2012Dedicated to friend and colleague Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop's 11th album is as refined and dignified as the top-hat-wearing gentleman depicted on the cover.
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Apr 6, 2012Ethereal, melancholy, and just plain strange.
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Feb 29, 2012If this really is to be Lambchop's final album, it's an undeniably lovely one.
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Feb 23, 2012It's another contradiction, a subtle genre-jumper but a cohesive whole.
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Feb 21, 2012The profound sadness imbued in Mr. M, something that hasn't necessarily been as apparent on previous Lambchop albums, lends a consistency that produces a satisfying meditative effect.
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Feb 21, 2012Presenting musical and lyrical content in discrete halves, it functions as a microcosm of the kind of balance that makes Lambchop great, a poetic focus on words that doesn't scrimp on the music.
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Feb 13, 2012This isn't an album that's likely to change anything, but nor does it deserve to just pass by unnoticed.