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- Artist(s): Paul Niehaus, Kurt Wagner, Andy Stack, Matt Swanson
- Summary: The latest full-length release for the alt-country band led by Kurt Wagner is covers album with each member selecting one song for the for the group to cover.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Nov 18, 2020In short, they pay the best kind of respect to material they love, finding a way to live inside it and change it and make it breathe.
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MojoNov 18, 2020The results are an impressively cohesive testament to Lambchop's interpretative skills as much as their experimental slant. [Jan 2021, p.86]
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Nov 24, 2020Trip doesn't overlap much with Lambchop's original musical vision, but it finds the group picking up on the philosophy behind their early work, and it makes for a satisfying and affecting listening.
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Nov 25, 2020On the surface, TRIP’s concept sounds like the kind of diehards-only project that would fit on the back half of a career-spanning boxset or as a high-priced Record Store Day release. Instead, Lambchop continue to subvert expectations by making TRIP an essential chapter in their recent creative hot streak.
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Dec 16, 2020It’s not shocking that the band delves into unreleased material by Yo La Tengo’s James McNew or an ultra-obscure single by mid-70’s underground band Mirrors. Elsewhere though, the band’s early country roots come to bear on George Jone’s Where Grass Won’t Grow, and the gentle drift of Stevie Wonder’s Golden Lady appeal to fans of the band’s minor key mid-period. Worthwhile and weird.
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Nov 18, 2020There’s no brave new frontier here – and perhaps in these strange times many of us don’t really want to be challenged. Rather, these simple pleasures, full of reassurance and a satisfying indulgence, will keep us warm while we adjust to the ‘new normal’ – whatever that may eventually turn out to be.
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Nov 18, 2020What works for Lambchop in the case of TRIP is the level of consistency in their sound that they were able to achieve through years of playing music together. However, it does not exactly bring the album together, because the tracks are thematically very different, and the band’s decision to apply the same approach to them contributes to the plainness of TRIP.