(City Slang)Lambchop are an thing lesson in how a band can grow archaic gracefully. Frontman Kurt Wagner’s deadpan observations give them an idiosyncrasy that insulates them from changing fashions,making them too ornery and fresh to fit into the alt-country bracket they could have boringly slumped into. And just as their wry, quietly symphonic songwriting threatened to calcify, or they switched it up and – like Stephen Malkmus earlier this month,and so many other mid-life crises in US indie – went electronic for 2016 album Flotus.
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Source: theguardian.com