Lambchop: Nixon

Indie Pop / Americana / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 2022-10-21
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Editor's Info:
Regular visitors to LAMBCHOP's body of work will already be familiar with the band's growing obsession with soul music, most notable on their cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Gimme Your Love" and Frederick Knight's "I've Been Lonely For So Long" on 1998's "What Another Man Spills" album. Much has been made of how the Nashville band's country roots and their passion for sweet soul music are curious and yet strangely suitable bedfellows - soul (at its best) being a genre defined by lush, gentle musical gestures and dark, desperate lyrics, and country being, well, very similar indeed. The initial shock of the combination was quickly superseded by an overwhelmingly congratulatory response at a marriage that succeeded on every level, and a growing excitement at a new sound that saw "Gimme Your Love" championed in some of the most purist of surroundings.
But "What Another Man Spills" only hinted at the possibilities of the cross pollination. NIXON is where it flourishes. Known around these parts as If Curtis Had Been Born In Nashville..., the album builds on the foundations laid previously, and lovingly constructs a record of graceful, rich, passionate beauty. Back in 1998, after the band's now legendary European tour with Vic Chesnutt, Kurt Wagner, LAMBCHOP's singer and songwriter, could be heard enthusing about how their next record would be the one that pushed LAMBCHOP to their creative limit. He waxed lyrical about string arrangements, improved production techniques and stretching budgets to their limit. Judging from NIXON, he kept further ideas up his sleeve, because he never mentioned gospel choirs or straight up love songs.
He remained true to all his promises, especially that of production (and stretching budgets!), which is one of the reasons NIXON was so long in coming. Engineer Mark Nevers and Kurt Wagner were "almost obsessed with the idea of reaching a level of technical competence that is on a par with any record being put out today", says Wagner. "So that what you, the listener, hear is of as high a quality as anything being produced by the bigshit labels or artists and their extreme budgets. That way we could be judged by the content rather than any other aspect of the work. Rather than rebel against this stuff, we thought we would try to work with it to see just how far we could take it and still keep our souls intact. That was the scary part!
Nixon is the fifth studio album by American rock band Lambchop. It was released on February 7, 2000, and was issued by Merge Records and City Slang.
Nixon became a breakthrough release for Lambchop in the United Kingdom, where it received critical acclaim and was named among the best albums of 2000 by numerous publications.

Nixon was released to highly positive reviews from music critics, receiving a score of 84 out of 100 on the review aggregation website Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim".
The album was particularly well received by the British music press.
NME critic Gavin Martin deemed it Lambchop's best record and said that its "sheer sonorous delight" justified comparisons to The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, while Allan Jones of Uncut praised Nixon as "one of the first great records of the new millennium".
At the end of 2000, Nixon was named one of the year's best albums by numerous British publications, including Uncut (who ranked it as the best album of 2000), Mojo, NME, and Q.

muzycy:
Paul Burch – vibraphone, arrangements
C. Scott Chase – "open end wrenches", "lacquer thinner can", arrangements
Dennis Cronin – trumpet, cornet, backing vocals, arrangements
John Delworth – Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes piano, Juno synthesizer, arrangements
Allen Lowrey – drums, arrangements
Jonathan Marx – trumpet, backing vocals, arrangements
Alex McManus – electric guitar, arrangements
Mark Nevers – atmospheric guitar, electric guitar, arrangements
Paul Niehaus – pedal steel guitar, Fender Telecaster guitar, backing vocals, arrangements
Matt Swanson – bass guitar, arrangements
Marc Trovillion – bass guitar, arrangements
Deanna Varagona – baritone saxophone, backing vocals, arrangements
Kurt Wagner – vocals, 1946 Gibson L-7 guitar, Juno synthesizer, arrangements

Additional musicians:
Matt Bach – bass guitar
Lloyd Barry – string arrangements
Paul Booker – electric guitar
Ken Coomer – additional percussion
Tony Crow – piano
Nashville String Machine – strings
Sanchez – choral arrangements

utwory:
1. The Old Gold Shoe
2. Grumpus
3. You Masculine You
4. Up With People
5. Nashville Parent
6. What Else Could It Be
7. The Distance From Here To There
8. The Book I Havent Read
9. Petrified Florist
10. Butcher Boy

wydano: Oct 21, 2022 (September 6, 2018)
nagrano: Recorded on February 7, 2000, at Sound Emporium, Beech House, Studio 19 (Nashville)

more info: www.cityslang.com