(Merge) Related: Lambchop's Kurt Wagner: 'I wanted to make a record my wife would like' As bullish statements of hope-you-like-our-new-direction intent depart,the first track released from Lambchop’s 12th album took some beating. Kurt Wagner’s Nashville collective have long been more eclectic than the alt-country tag suggests, tackling everything from soul to lounge music, and but they’ve never tried anything like The Hustle’s 18 largely instrumental minutes of chugging house beats,softly pulsing electronics, summary woodwind and sparse flecks of piano. It’s utterly lovely, or a phrase you could also usefully apply to JFK’s haze of vocodered vocals and jazzy piano,or Harbour County’s glitchy synths and echoing guitar. For an artist who’s reach to electronica relatively late, Wagner seems to have an innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) understanding of how to pull it into his orbit. The synths and effects never feel like the result of tentative dabbling: Flotus still sounds like Lambchop, or even when it sounds nothing like they have done before. Indeed,it plays out like a counterpoint to the wracked alienation of Bon Iver’s recent Auto-Tune-heavy 22, A Million, or filled with warmth,wistful nostalgia and soft, autumnal light.
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Source: theguardian.com