Nixon

Not my style but it was a pretty solid listen

Stupid band name and a stupid album name so I had my doubts going into this. Musically they are super solid and the vocals have a nice delivery an rasp. So a great album, right? Should be but I just didn't connect with this really at any point. It seems like they couldn't find a hook in the entire album.

I wasnt familiar with this and was intrigued. A background listen didnt yield much so i switched to headphones. At this level it really strated to shine. The gentle vocal, indie sensibilities, warm brass and beautiful strings all combine for a wonderful album.

Chill but not for me. I feel it would be a good album to sleep to, personally i need a little more energi

Baš krasan album

boring

it's not bad, just really boring

Boring album with absolutely nothing special about it. 4/10

On the dull side of ambient.

Kinda dreamy, quite sleep music. Okay in moderation, not sure I wanted a full album

Pretty good listen! I enjoyed this and wondered why I haven't heard more from them. Will be back for more!

This was interesting, and cool, but not my favorite. Three stars.

Didn’t expect to like it as much as I did.

If this list has taught me anything about myself….I don’t like song longer than 4 minutes. These are LIL ditties if I’ve ever heard one! No reason to drag all these songs to 5+ minutes. Is this guy the brother of the author or something? Bonus star cuz I love the album cover.

Feel bad about giving it a 2 stars because I didn’t exactly dislike it but I couldn’t bring myself to finish it. Has no business being on any lists of any albums though

An absolute gem of an album

Hmm I don’t really like albums recorded at someone’s toilet. music wise it’s a bit boring. It’s not terrible on a lazy Friday but doesn’t do much either.

another Friday listen that I have forgotten by Monday... i remember it being aight.

It was alright, but honestly a bit boring. I liked some songs or parts of songs, but I don’t know why this is an album I must listen to.

Its not that I dislike the album, I just find the random use of falsetto a little off-putting when the rest of the album is sung at such a low tone. The music was solid, just overall the album wasn't for me and I don't fully understand the significance of it. I'm somewhere between a two and three, but I'm rounding down.

Easy listening but a bit boring. I hate the songs in falsetto, but I really liked "Up With People". That song saved it from being a 2.

Didn’t get past first song. Not a fan.

This was like hearing paint dry.

When he goes falsetto, I just see a muppet.

76/100. Strong alt-country with some good and interesting writing. It’s an album that moves at its own pace. Definitely one of the more unique takes on the genre.

Don’t dig the vocals - either the boring dude or the Miss Piggy (though picturing Miss Piggy singing these songs made it marginally better). I’d never heard of this band so was excited to try something new. It looks like my excitement was premature. Couldn’t get through it, which would render it a 1, but I could see they were trying to do some interesting stuff, so a 2

The songs are so long. It's kinda mellow.

I enjoyed this to begin with but it all kind of felt the same as it went on. Fav track: Grumpus

Track 1 had me thinking this album would be terrible, but the rest of the songs proved it was only mediocre

Pleasant surprise

Kinda shit

Overall: 9/10 Damn, what a beautiful album. An incredible mix of pop, soul and country that really shouldn't work but somehow it does. It's albums like this that keep me coming back to this list. Fav Song: What Else Could It Be?

I've never heard of Chamber Pop before, but I think I love it. This is so chill. I think it would be 5 stars if not for some of the twangy country vibes that I'm not a huge fan of. 4/5

Guys. I think we found where AI got its piss filter from. I thought it was boring initially, but I kind of got into it later. I mean, this is just peaceful background music that doesn’t do anything to stand out, and that’s not for me. I pretty much never in the mood to listen to anything like this. But I guess his voice is pleasant, so I enjoyed it a little bit.

calm a fall listen

Don’t really even know what I was listening to. It’s literally just there. I agree with the one review. Passed by and wasn’t even sure I heard it. Because it was so unexciting.

Moody retro rock vibes

This turned out to be a pleasant surprise; I had never heard of Lambchop and didn’t know what to expect. I liked the chamber pop style of instrumentation though the vocals were hit or miss for me. Reminded me of Destroyer or later Arctic Monkeys albums.

I simply just don't enjoy these kinds of vocals. I think a Tom Jones type would serve these arrangements more.

I don't even know what to make of this. I actually really liked some of the middle tracks - reminded me of Badly Drawn Boy. But it was bookended by such weirdness. What is this and why is it here???

Very cool to start the journey with an album that dropped on Jan 1, 2000. Beautiful instrumentals from start to finish. Never heard of this album or band but we’re off to a solid start. Wouldn’t listen for the singing performance however. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Atmospheric and lively, singing is too calm for the rest, overall enjoyable.

Not sure how this is labeled as a rock band, it's adult contemporary/easy listening at best. After the first 3 songs I started skipping songs after a minute if it didn't catch me, so I listened to a minute of the rest of the album. Hefty no thank you.

Not bad...but too mellow, sleepy for me.

When the Wikipedia entry said "American rock band, Lambchop," I took that to mean that Lambchop was a rock band. My bad. Really, there's not a ton of difference between this and Bill Callahan. Callahan's record has a sparser production, which I like, and, to me, his voice is more interesting. The easy-listening style orchestral production on this record is just hard for me to sit with for very long.

I'm glad I listened past the first three songs on this album. Had I not, I would have hated it forever as a garbage rehash of 70s lounge music/Charlie's Angels themes. Now, having listened to the whole album, I can just be bored out of my fucking mind. Zzzzzzzz... Two stars, though, because at least it's not Sad Muffin or whatever the fuck that shitbrit band was.

I think this album suffered from our group due to the obvious similarities with Bill Callaghan - baritone and sing/talk vocals plus generally slow tempo music. I listened to this maybe 10 years ago when it was on some other beat of list and my opinion hasn’t changed. I liked it pretty well, but there is not enough to get me to go deeper. Let’s hope the National isn’t the next album.

2.5/5 - I didn't need to hear this because this was back-to-back with Bill Callahan yesterday, and I hope this isn't a trend. That said, I was prepared to hate this more than I did, and The Butcher Boy was alright. Still, it's too sedate for me in a way that isn't engaging. Rounding down for the falsetto and 90% of the lyrics which made no sense to me.

Haven't heard of them before. I was a bit skeptical when I read what genre the album is. But honestly it was quite good. I think I'm not immute to chill sounding music lately 3/5

It’s okay

Surprisingly good

Дуже сподобався альбом. Чудовий теплий, прикольний мікс алт-кантрі та чембер-попу з настроєм як на альбомах Destroyer чи пізніх АМ. Платівки останні роки особливо не купую, але захотілось залізти на disсogs подивитися які є пропозиції)

Доволі нудний інді\чамбер-поп. Так, аранжування й оркестровки красиві, але для мене це не рятує Nixon на жаль. Інколи правда нагадало дестройер, це, мабуть, найкращі моменти альбому.

це було дуже нудно...

Pretty chill, sleepy indie, nice background music.

8 I like it!! loved the song grumpus already and now I know the rest of the album. What a dream. What a time to be alive

Cover Art Review - great! surreal Americana scene broken up by NIXON whatever that means to you. 8/10 Musically, can't figure out what is going on here. Not for me, but to each his own.

Lambchop simply doesn't do it for me.

Interesting artist. His voice reminds me of Bob Dorough.

When I told my husband that I got a Lambchop album for today, he laughed and said "you're not going to like it!" That man knows me. This is the music of my nightmares - some sort of slow country pop... thing. I know it's more difficult for me to detect nuance in the music I don't like, and I think that's true for a lot of people - it all just sounds like a reason to scramble for the skip button. If this is more your style, I'm sorry I'm currently incapable of giving it a fair shot. I tried, multiple times, over the course of hours, and physically recoiled each time. Visceral, gut-level NOPE.

This album kept feeling like it was going to turn into something I really enjoyed, but it never quite got there. I still liked it and would like to listen to some more of Lambchop's music as I've never really heard of him before.

Lambchop is not a crook; more pleasant than Milhouse and more trustworthy than Pat.

I thought this one was pretty interesting at first, but something about it just didn't work well in the long run. I think the vocals are just a bit too relaxed or detached, I enjoyed the orchestral score on "Nashville Parent" a lot but the lyrics didn't impress me. This does seem to be prescient of a bunch of post-2000 indie music, so it is an interesting album on that front. Favorite track: maybe "Up With People"

Oh, very doom and jazz and light and same tempo

Coma-inducing

2/5 Best Track - "Up With People"

There are some lovely wee touches to this and I like some of the arrangements but that falsetto voice is something else… 2.5

What the precise hell am I listening to? Bailed after track 3 or 4. Not for me.

2 or 3 songs are superb, but the weird falsetto near the middle of the album is just bizarre

Do połowy przesłuchany aktualnie, ale spoko dziwny, dosć przyjemny; bardziej jako odskocznia od typowej muzyki

Why?

Not for me.

Didn't hate it but nothing really grabbed me at any point. Maybe with more listens I'd get it, who knows, but for now seems kinda weak.

Just not for me

3 tracks in and couldn't do it anymore. No bangers on this one.

Sort of thing you'd watch on the Glastonbury coverage if there was nothing else on.

Nope.

Gaaaaaa! Fuckin boring.....I tried though.

Ahh that voice, it takes me back to a time I don’t really remember.

-alright, this one was just. very. bland? it kind of reminded me of Songs:Ohia, but very little about it really stuck out to me -there needs to be a special category for albums that just make me feel nothing, because this isn’t bad i just can’t get down w it -Favorites are You Masculine You and The Petrified Florist

Quite boring and uninteresting

1* mędzenie

I don’t love Kurt Wagner’s voice and there are times when this album can get a little boring, but it’s not bad. Probably not something I would revisit a lot, but I can see why people like it. Wouldn’t be in my own 1001 list though.

3/10 Why? I like the album art. 8-28-2025

I don’t know why, but I was under the impression going in that this would be a heavy metal album. As much as I like metal, this was a pleasant surprise. Very vibey. Smooth and calm like how I like it. I’ll revisit this one day.

I wasn't sure about this one at first, but I really enjoyed my time with it.

I love Up With People already (mostly the remix tbh), but the rest of this felt a bit too bland? Like. The Moderately Warm Lips or sth

Quite liked this, particularly liked Up With People.

Weird and wonderful, almost as expected. I'm not sure I hear much of "country" everyone talks about.

Sa ptite voix de tondeuse me gosse bien en ce doux matin

Some weird country/pop/soul mishmash that is just not for me. I appreciate the music here and there, but it's slow and the vocals are boring at best, bizarre at worst (but never in a way that works for me). Just nothing about it that makes me want to come back to this album or listen to the band any more. There are maybe a couple moments of promise but they don't quite get there for me.

What a strange series of sounds.

Some really spoke to me while most did not. Reminded me of Mac DeMarco.

Um sonzinho bem legal.

Thank god "The Butcher's Boy" at the end woke me up. Another album with nothing remarkable on. Forgot it immediately. 1,5

Never heard anything quite like it. It’s a stew of pop, soul, country, R&B and electronica, among others. Took a few tracks but man did this album grow on me. It’s weird and unpredictable, and fun to listen to. How refreshing to hear music that’s truly different.

Cool little unique blend of genres. I enjoyed the first half a decent bit but not really the back half. Album art is great too. Rating: 3.2

Хотел поставить три звезды за неплохую расслабляющую музыку, но снижаю на одну звезду за обилие писклявости

Ok to listen to once but not my kind of indie music. I’m missing a a bit of power here.

Nice album to ease back into the real world. Exactly the type of mellow I needed today. Really enjoyed the music and the vocals. I've never listened to this group before, I don't understand the low ratings this album has gotten, it's actually quite good.

This took a few listens, but it grew and grew with each one. Some beautiful melodies and orchestration - unique without being self consciously 'weird' - and some glorious lyrics. Somewhere between the Walker Brothers and The Smiths. A high 4, only missing a 5 because I found his weak falsetto a bit off putting on several songs.

Tranqui

Me la pelaa

I find this beautiful, challenging and brave. They weave their sound and influences with little consideration of marketable genre and admire the effort and outcome. Will definitely listen again.

Nice stuff, could see it growing on me more. Charmed by the idea that this caught on in the UK but not so much in the states. Americana innit

This was decent! I liked it more than i would expect to like something describerd as "a merging of chamber pop, countrypolitan, and R&B sounds alongside "sweet" soul music."

With the exception of a bit of movement at the end, felt very loungey, with scarce excitement - is this country adjacent nonsense what a whole swathe of America listens to? An hour of my life I'll never get back.

Not as good as "Is a woman " but still pretty decent.

It is the musical equivalent of Mr. Snuffleupagus; a bit silly, lumbering at times, and is part of a fun place. Enjoyable tunes but nothing that stands out over the top.

It’s quite nice and chill but didn’t make much of an impact on me

< the Beatles No thank you

Gute Hintergrundmusik, bisschen zu cheesy.

Not my style. Feels more like background music with someone talking over it.

Very good production, but the singer's forays into breathy falsetto vocals really don't do it for me.

Ehh not for me

Its very good. Very pleasant Easy listen

I was bored during this 2 ⭐️

I feel like this is what Neutral Milk Hotel sounds like to people who don't like them.

Speechless. I usually don’t like slow songs too much, but all of these are fucking masterpieces. Made me feel like I’m on some cute lovey dovey date. It healed something in me. Something still keeps me from giving it 5 stars, but it’s very close to it.

I'm too old for this shit. 1/5

Another dud. I admit it isn’t my preferred genre, but this guy was like watered down milk. The instrumentals weren’t bad, but there was no energy and the delivery felt really flat. For the first time 40 albums in I tapped out after 3 songs, and that was after dragging through Californication yesterday.

Their 1996 album How I Quit Smoking was a bit of an indie touchstone— it's an album I attempted to get into several times. Eventually I decided it was just cluttering up my library and my mental capacity and I rid myself of it. This album is not much more enticing, I'm afraid.

Some of the songs were sooo good. Some were a little different. Overall, the album was so calming and I enjoyed it. More like 3.75

It started relatively well... until the horrible fake high pitch began in "Masculine You". At first it sounded like Farinelli with the flu. Then they did it again. And again. And again... Like nails on a chalkboard. Stop. Please stop. STOP THIS OH MY GOD I WANT TO CLAW MY EARDRUMS OUT. I’d rather listen to cats in heat for 60 minutes than submit myself to that again. It didn't help that the whole band seemed to be asleep through most of the album. "Nixon" managed to lull me to sleep AND make my skin crawl at the same time. I guess it's a feat in itself ?...

1. gold - 1.5 2. grumpuz - 1.5 3. mazculine - 0 4. people - 1 5. parent - 1.5 6. elze - 1 7. diztance - 0 8. book - 1 9. florizt - 1 10. boy - 0

I had never heard of Lampchop before. I don't even really know what genre to put it in but I enjoy the music. Gentle voice and interesting lyrics, can't say I'm wanting to listen to more.

almost killed me of boredom, 2 for effort

What a strange album. I loved most of it and hated like two songs. Maybe one of my most confused ratings to date.

How would we categorise this? Dream-Folk? In any case it’s not like anything I’ve heard before. Somewhere between Sufjan Stevens and NMH.

I'm not sure what this is. It's like if our parents in the 70's had a party and instead of a bowl of keys had a bowl of weed. Yet not as fun as that sounds because this is lame and reminds me of the worst episode of the love boat.

Didn't get all that much out of this.

Good

I couldn’t get past the Randy Newman-esque vocals enough to listen to the actual music.

Sneaky fire

Dad- 7 Mom- 5 Mike- NA Lori- 6.5 Michael- 6 Miles- 6 Cole- NA Avg- 6.1

Interesting album whic was very enjoyable but without any top songs I felt I had to listen to again.

I wasn’t really into this, 2/5

Pretty good

Painfully boring

very chill.

Fav: Grumpus Least Fav: You Masculine You Country is listenable to me when it has an alt vibe, and this is no exception. Thoroughly enjoyed

This album is kind of slow and boring. I don’t feel like it’s very engaging. Kind of like reading a book that starts off slow. I listened to the whole album and my thoughts never changed.

4.8 - Liked them before, glad they are here. Just a great band and great album

Who put this here. Fave Tracks: Nashville Parent, Butcher Boy 3.1/5

прикольная хуйня, но вокал такой блюзово-уставший не клеется вообще

I’m not sure how I feel about this one. Didn’t completely hate it; there were a few tracks I liked, but the others… yeah, not so much.

What the heck was this? No, thank you. No more, please.

Didn't like this at all. Never got used to the singer's voice. Found the whole thing bland.

I hated everything about this.

"meh"

I was in the right mood tonight for this album. It is a very nicely arranged and neatly produced chamber pop album with a touch of country. I enjoyed it, though it felt a bit directionless and inconsistent at times. 3+ stars at my first listen.

Had no idea these guys were this old lol I found them after their album in 2022 and really like that album. This one was good too. Love the chamber pop and artsy feel to it

This is an interesting record and one you wouldn't expect to like because it's so different. There are so many different genres sprinkled here surprisingly they all work. It's not something you need to be in the mood for and even then you're not fully prepared for what you're hearing.

This album doesn't make much sense to me. Everything about it should, in theory, be great. It's relaxing, the band knows what they're doing, and the vocalist does really well on his part. It's an incredibly well-done album that just doesn't have much in the way of real interest. The parts where the vocalist goes super high and strained with his voice sometimes work and sometimes don't, the suddenly more electronic instrumentation on The Petrified Florist was interesting for the fact that it's finally something different, but even then it feels like too little too late. Maybe it's the lack of risk-taking on this album, maybe it's how clean everything sounds, or maybe some third thing that I can't make out, but this album as a whole was just okay, but that seems to be exactly what it's going for.

I'm honestly not quite sure what this album wanted to be. It didn't seem to hold a specific sound, and while it wasn't like the quality was bad, it just felt off in too many ways. Kind of hard to describe, but it's almost like it wanted to be a sound fusion but couldn't quite ever properly land the combination. The quality of what they put out was good, but ultimately I just didn't enjoy what it ended up being. Just not for me I guess.

A nice album. I could quite happily have this on in the background for its chilled out, melodic vibes. However, there's not enough to grab onto to give it more than a 3*.

Pues no sé muy bien qué decir. Un álbum de country pop / "countrypolitan", es decir, pop con toques country y acompañamientos orquestales, en plan épico apasionado con muchas cuerdas. El frontman, Kurt Wagner, tiene una forma bastante interesante de cantar, cambiando entre una voz acarraspada y cafetera a un falsetto bastante extraño y que no me termina de entrar por los oídos. Por su parte, la instrumentación tan involucrada y exuberante le viene bastante bien como contrapunto, y el resultado acaba siendo agradable de escuchar, aunque no destaque nada en particular. Un buen álbum merecedor de los elogios que ha recibido, pero que no es lo mío.

beautiful album. perfect mix of folk-leaning country and lush orchestral sections. i might end up deciding it's a 5/5 later, but for now, it's a 4/5.

Not the most enjoyable album I’ve had. Found it quite boring. 2/5

Sounded kind of like Disney orchestral music with a deep voiced Jiminy Cricket singing, and also had the worst falsetto I've ever heard. I did not enjoy.

kyllähän tämä nyt tschihillinki ja jvaijbailu kategoriaan liittyy. musiikki kuitenkaan ei ole kovin nautinnollista ylipäätänsä. turhauttavaa tämä ei ollut, mutta kaheli minun täytyisi olla jos koskaan tämän perusteella tämän bändin musiikkia halajaisin. ja miksi niksoni mitä vittua. yksi kaikien aikojen väärinymmärretyimmistä presidenteistä. ulkopolitiikka nero. vielä 60 vuotta jälkeen aivan uskomaton silmä ennustuskyky kun pekka pouta konsanaan ennustaa geopolitiikan ilmastoa ennen kuin asiat edes ovat tapahtuneet. rattaat liikkuu liikkuu porukka katsoo missä ovat eikä mitä on tulossa (unbelievable mistake`) up with people

This is much more mellow than I had anticipated the album being. Not sure what I expected. It was pleasant music, though the songs were a bit long for my tastes. I am not sure I have ever heard a mixture of alt-country, chamber-pop and soul mixed in to one band. So, I give credit for that mixture of sounds. It was very sleepy and the length of the songs caused my attention to divert at times. It was never bad and I would possibly suggest this one to an individual who may be prone to enjoying this kind of music. For me, it just didn't grab me, even when the lead singer went totally falsetto (on What Else Could It Be). The songs I enjoyed the most were: The Old Gold Shoe Grumpus Up with People What Else Could It Be The Book I Haven't Read

Just a little too weird for me. Like the whining and the whale- Just a little too weird for me. Like the whining and the whale-like noise, just can’t do it, man. Cool instrumentals though.

There were moments I didn't like--especially those when the lead singer switched into ~The Voice~ (if you've listened to this, you know what I mean)--but I found the middle section of the album really compelling. Not sure I'd reach for it again, but it was an interesting listen. Rounded up from 2.5 *. Standout tracks: Up with People, Nashville Parent, The Petrified Florist

American 2000s country pop. Breakthrough in UK. Very laid-back pop, pleasant. Vocals a bit irritating.

La description me semblait prometteuse (du chamber pop, des comparaisons à l’album Pet Sounds des Beach Boys), mais (et je n’en suis qu’à la quatrième chanson) ça ne lève pas pour moi. Ça sonne très très bien, mais ça ne me parle juste pas (pour l’instant, peut-être que la deuxième moitié sera plus pour moi.). Meilleurs tounes : Up With People, Nashville Parent, What Else Could It Be?, The Book I Haven’t Read, The Petrified Florist. C’est pas un gros wow, mais c’est un album qui a un charme discret. Il y a le petit côté country qui me déplait, par contre. Je ne sais plus trop quoi en penser, à deux tounes de la fin... Avant dernière... Je pense que j’irais avec un *** et demi, parce que c’est un peu plus qu’un bon album ordinaire (***), mais pas tout à fait un album wow (****).

Bad singing, good instrumentation, uninteresting lyrics. Only song that stood out in any way was Up With People. Everything else just washed over me. No idea why this is on the list.

Not repulsive, just boring

Never heard of them. Type of music I could enjoy but didn’t like this album. Lead singers voice didn’t do anything for me.

I liked this! Hints of Smog, which is great. Maybe a little splash of David Berman minus the depression (RIP to a maestro). Stylistically varied while maintaining it's chill regardless of the direction the tracks take. It definitely hits like a 2000 indie album, and that is not a bad thing. 3.5 stars.

pretty good rock/weird fusion, never heard of these guys

not for me, really 😅 The vocals are good-ish, lyrics are mid, melody (or better yet, the solos) is great.

Never got better

... i am not a big fan of country so I'll see how this goes. After listening: not bad but not for me. Feels like coffee shop music, and I wasn;t particularly caught by any song really other than Grumpus. Favorite: Grumpus. Least favorite: What else could it be?. dear god actually what is that falsetto

Nice

I liked it

In a nutshell: an acquired taste The only way I can describe this album is part Wilco, part Elbow. Combining these sounds was catnip to the UK press. For me, I like these artists separately. Nixon isn’t my thing, but I give the band some praise for ingenuity. Overall: 2/10

boring as f*ck. 1 good song. big miss

Pretty good

Have you ever been to maybe a local farmer's market and, set up under the trees, there's a guy with an Taylor T5 thinline electro acoustic guitar, an ungodly amount of PA equipment, and some pre-recorded samples on a multitrack sequencer/drum machine that he plays along with while he sings? Clearly he's a decent musician but the music isn't anything that people would really sit and pay attention to. It's just kind of filler in the background that most people don't even realize is being played by a real person. And you start to think to yourself, 'I bet this guy is like the brother in law of the event organizer or something' before you go on with your organic produce purchases and walk away from the small stage that's hosting said lone man. You move on without another thought about the music whatsoever. Then the next day you forget he was even there. That's this whole album. 2/5

To quote the young lady. "It's mid."

Pretty good.

That's a great album, really driving it, sounding like Willie Nelson being laser-focused and supported by different bands all moulded into one. Little nitpicks would be that some parts are a bit off with the voice and singing.

This is an album to really slow down and settle into. It's such an interesting mix of Americana-- the polished string arrangements of the 50s, clean and twangy tremolo-ed guitars, clapping as percussion like something out of the Beach Boys, soul guitar and falsetto. There's a lot of vintage influence here, but the vocals lend an indie modernity, and are often "bad" in the sense that limits of his voice feel pushed and it gives unpolished honesty to counterbalance the instrumentation (I often found the crackling falsetto grating and distracting). It sits somewhere around Bill Callahan or Will Oldham or Wilco or Sufjan Stevens or Lana Del Rey. I don't know. I've heard such good things about Lambchop and I wish I'd listened to this about 10 years ago, I would've eaten it up. My tastes have changed a bit, and this isn't so much my style anymore. But I still expect to return to it when that mood strikes.

It's not bad but I'm apathetic towards all songs in the album.

Особо не зацепил стиль

This was pretty boring. It was theoretically rock but all the songs were pretty slow and similar.

Nice tunes, instrumentation but I find the vocal rendition blank

this album reveals itself little by little and i've come to regret that it's coming to an end. it really deserves its 3 stars.

When I saw “alternative country,” I freaked out a bit. Luckily, the band seems to have moved on from that. Some tracks like « Grumpus » or « Up with People » are actually really cool and have real soul. That said, the singer doesn’t really have a voice even though he’s trying unsuccessfully high pitched singing, and I find it hard to believe this is considered top-tier music as this is quite unoriginal. To me, it sounds like one of those albums by aging stars who have lost their spark and, in a desperate search for credibility, end up making bland music that’s easier to pull off on tour.

Eh really not for me. 2.1/10

his voice sounds so crazy familiar to me i was convinced that he had another project or vocal feature or SOMETHING that i've listened to already but it appears not…? it's driving me nuts because there's something about his inflection that i know i recognize from somewhere but idk where…anyway i thought this was pretty boring. with this kind of toned down instrumentals and very clear delivery i think the lyrics really have to stand on their own because there's little else to focus on and they simply weren't doing it for me. this is not an album you have to hear before you die.

at first I was really enjoying this and found it beautiful and I really liked the lead singer's voice. but then it just took a turn and got really grating to me for some reason. i'm really not sure what it was, maybe my mood just changed or something. but the smoothness of it suddenly became very irritating, but up until that point I was enjoying it very much and can see myself adding some of these songs individually to a playlist of other songs. Fav tracks: The Old Gold Shoe, Grumpus

This album was pleasant enough to listen to. Imagine if Jamiroquai and John Mayer got together to make a Radiohead album. But then that album was covered by a wedding band that played during the cocktail hour before the reception.

Nice

I can imagine this kind of album being performed on a Saga cruise. I feel like it would cater well to some middle class octogenarians who would probably think it was all marvellous and doesn’t he have such a wonderful singing voice. I found it pretty insipid start to finish. There are some different musical influences in there but none used to any great effect. The falsetto didn’t surprise me but could have done without it.

Listening to this album felt like hitting 'shuffle' on a single, extremely beige track. Every song merged into one monotonous blob. The only energy shift I noted was the artist pushing their voice from merely pathetic to a truly transcendent level of vocal fragility. Just sounded like backing music rather than something I want to listen to.

Not a great start to this album with the trite "The Old Gold Shoe" which I was bored with after the first minute. The music is low energy and uninteresting and I was just thinking the vocals couldn't get more bland when the awful falsetto started and took it from bland to irritating. This is beige music for beige people.

Fine

Too boring for me

Thoughts before listening: I'm pretty sure I once owned this album. I'm also pretty sure I thought it was slow and boring. Perhaps age will have changed my mind. Review: This is fine. There are certainly some moments that grab my attention, but for the most part this is a little dull. Definitely a slow burn for most of these songs and some get more interesting the longer they go on. My favorite parts are when the horns kick in on some of these songs. Ultimately, this is a perfectly fine alt-country album that has a few highlights but never really rises to the heights of their contemporaries i.e. Wilco or Son Volt. 3-stars

Nice calm Sunday morning drive

Not sure if it's his voice, the nonsensical lyrics, or if I just wasn't in the mood...but I actively disliked most of this album. The musical settings with strings and horns were appealing on some songs but, overall, it just didn't do anything for me. And come on, this is a concept album about Ricard Nixon? OK, whatever.

Very sonically interesting in a subtle way, definitely warrants more than one listen. Had only heard individual songs by Lambchop and liked them, so great to listen through an album. Pretty cool stuff, hooked by the various instruments and strange directions the songs would take that I barely could focus on any lyrics, but the ones I caught were weird and intriguing

4/5

Immemorable

Strange strange strange… also oddly soothing at times… But mostly just always on the edge of weird

2-3

Somewhere between Flaming Lips and Weird Al, I guess. Not for me.

Noice

Completely new band and album for me. Bit of a duff name Lambchop especially for an American band from Tennessee. Thought a lambchop was very much an English delicacy. That aside the album had a bit of everything in it so chapeau to that. Was wondering what Wiki described as countrypolitan was. So now I know but i do sometimes have to laugh what lengths some people go to when trying to describe a genre of music. An enjoyable hour spent listening but probably something I will not readily return to. 3/5 15/6/25

Little short but not bad.

This is one of those albums I enjoyed, but it didn’t leave me with a lot to say. It’s definitely chamber pop with a country rock edge, and in some ways it reminds me of Bill Callahan, just filtered through a more orchestrated, chamber pop lens. It’s pleasant and well crafted, but not something that left a strong lasting impression on me.

Tedious.

i'm sure somewhere in my collection (2002) there is a group and album (The Sound Of Urchin, You Are The Best) that is weird in a non-complimentary way that I still think everyone should hear. that's what this album felt like. it's someone's weird group and weird album.

lovely instrumental album. shame the recording caught someone talking over it

I just know somewhere out there a ton of people love this band but I don't have any idea why. I further have no idea why some reviews called this the start of "alternative country" aside from they're from Nashville. Then again I hate the concept of "alternative country" since it usually means all the mainstays of country music for decades ANYWAY I found this samey and grating.

My first experience with Lambchop. Not usually a fan of country music at all, but this one was different, and I found myself dancing along to some of the songs.

Pretty cool album, most of the songs are not super catchy but they are intricate--first class songwriting. I think I need more time with this one, but on first listen it's a 3.5 for me. Bumping as it's probably a grower.

Boring

Sorry, I just don't have time for this.

lowk was really really tired when listening to this, but what i heard sounded pretty damn good im negl

I have never really listened to Lambchop. I was aware they existed and was under the impression they were something to do with Wilco but apparently not. This is primarily indie-country in feel although there is a mix of styles which works sometimes, others is a bit of a mess: country-ish, Philly soul, new wave (Joe Jackson), and strings. Singer, Kurt Wagner's voice is fragile and almost disappears when he tries falsetto. His falsetto is terrible. Some of the otherwise musically fine songs sound like the vocals have been demoed for other singers. Unlikely to listen to this again although it wasn't unpleasant. At least it reminded me that it has been a while since I listened to (the completely unrelated) Wilco and Uncle Tupelo...

Probably would have benefitted from a second listen

Pretty mellow, chill rock

Enjoyable album

"The Old Gold Shoe" -- sounds like low-volume YLT ("Our Way to Fall" maybe?). Syrupy in a not-too-bad way Production, engineering sounds great. This dude's voice is not my bag (which is why I avoided listening to it when it came out). Strangely felt a little like David Bowie's Blackstar at points -- maybe it's the clean production. But without jazz influence.

Had not heard of Lambchop before, so I’m not sure what I expected but this wasn’t it. Kind of reminded me of Father John Misty or some of the more ballad like Arctic Monkeys songs. I’m not sure the songwriting gets to the level of Alex Turner or FJM but it feels like something one has to listen to a few times to really get.

2.5 Up and down on this one, started strong and ended strong, middle was a bit of a slog

This was surprisingly good. Get the album as a poster

Strong 6 to LIGHT 7. Lush strings reminiscent of Richard Hawley's Cole's Corner, but a bit too repetitive.

I think I grew to kinda like this record. Or more so grew to not hate it haha, I don’t really love it all too much but off my first listen I was not into this much at all. Giving it a lot more chances though I found some parts of this album that were great and I quite enjoyed.

Lushly orchestrated and mellow (small r) rock. This album doesn't really jump out at you with hooks or catchy melodies - it's more like a warm breeze or a cool stream that's continuously flowing. Ease yourself into it and relax. Best Tracks: Grumpus; Up With People; What Else Could It Be

Pretty smooth - good to listen to while finishing off an assignment

Bang average rock

absurdly good album. yall trash here.

Not feeling it. 2.5/5

I liked this a lot. Vague memories of Lambchop but not of anything in particular. 4 stars for gentle vibe.

Wow, what a boring album. I think it was a good, honest, down to earth indie music with a terrible vocal, which made you look at the clock, waiting for it to end. Lambchop sounds a bit like a bad imitation of Prince decided to do a boring americana indie rock. Waste of time.

This was my first encounter with Lambchop. It was... pleasant but fairly forgettable. I found the singer's voice comforting, though.

This is so relaxing and pleasant. I visualise all the songs I listen to in my head, and none have produced more joyous imagery than this album.

5/14/25. Country isn’t my favorite genre, but I always like diving into alternative country! Really enjoyed the vocal performance and string arrangements.

Music was kinda ok, kept waiting for a more upbeat song and it just never came. After reading the band's bio I was definitely not expecting strings and vibraphone. Giving a second listen (with headphones) because technically I should like this and I feel like I'm missing something.

I hated this, so boring, so mid

its like if brit rock met country western folk music. its not bad, nice string section, its like looking over a vista in the old west as the sun rises and touches everything, ready for a long day on horseback. its just gentle all around, maybe a little too much.

Pretty good! So funny that the Wiki states that despite being an American album it was a smash hit in the UK and then a lightbulb went on in my brain as to why this album made the list. Sort of Shinsy. I dig it

Not the biggest fan of the singer’s singing style

2.1 boring as hell

Offensively boring, and when it wasn't boring it was annoying.

Wow. Nostalgic magnificent dramatic. Those string arangements tho!

Got to the last track, thought that was the album finished, kinda reminded me of Julian Cope.

What a Delight, such easy listening. Will definitely be revisiting. 4 Stars.

Recognise the cover not the music. Lent this from a friend when came out, seems never gave it back but until today never listened to it either. Well on hearing, it’s strengths are its weaknesses, it’s chill and relaxing, the essence of smooth pop, country soul Easy-listening, but does little to and can see why people have said bland. Personal found it a Pleasant listen to be doing nothing, if not particularly anything memorable other than the chill feeling. 3 Star

Man this list picks some of the most boring albums for anything past 1999. There is a lot of really interest music from the past two decades, but no. Every time we get some easy listening music that won an award in the UK (I wonder why they picked this one) or one of the blandest UK Indie bands to exist. I swear the people compiling this list became out of touch around the end of the 90's and had no idea how to finish this list so they just looked at whatever won some award in the UK and added it despite the albums having 0 staying power. This album averages 200,000 streams on Spotify and has 2K ratings on RYM, I don't think people really care about this one. Rant over. The album itself is fine, every song is a slog to get through because they are so slow and bland, but if you isolate any individual song it would be fine. However, when dragged out into album format it gets tiring really quickly. I am on Track 4 right now and I don't remember if these guys even have a drummer, RYM says so, but in my mind every song is just slow guitar strumming and vocals. Update! I zoned out and now on track 7 and I still don't remember if the album has drums on it. Also his falsetto sounds like Miss Piggy. For my rating system I have been using "High", "Mid", and "Low" to give a little more variance in my ratings and to give a little more context about how I feel. I always worry that when I say something like "Mid 4", people will interpret it as I am saying the album is mid. However this is not the case, this is one of the most mid album of all time. Mid 2.

Perhaps this is an album I might enjoy while on psychedelics. I wouldn't know...but I imagine someone who does that sort of thing listening to this overly mellow, slow and sometime trippy sounds. And like...I don't know...falling asleep on their couch or something? But...I don't do psychedelics and I just found this boring and too slow.

The musical equivalent of white noise. I have no idea why this album made this list. To my mind, it was totally nondescript.

Well, I wasn't expecting this kind of music by a band called Lambchop. A lot of the album was dreamy, some was smooth seventies soul, there was some Leonard Cohen inspiration, some of it sounded like a movie score, the falsetto reminded me of Prince, and the album title is after Richard Nixon. All of this makes for a weird album that was somehow cohesive? I didn't hate it and was intrigued.

I didn't care much for this. Most of the songs were kind of spoken-sung in a half-assed folky way, and the rest of them were sung in a very screechy nails-on-a-chalkboard sounding falsetto. Everything was a bit of a drag. If I had been asked to guess when this was released, I definitely would not have assumed 2000.

*yawn*

There were a couple of cool tracks (Petrified Forest has done Bauhaus vibes), but overall a boring album.

Shockingly timeless. You could have told me this just released and I would have believed you.

Day482 - it sounds like it’s there’s an inside joke and i don’t get it

This is not my style of music. It is very "background" music and reminds me of bad slow jams. I am really not enjoying this, especially when the singer randomly breaks into falsetto. I was glad when this was over.

Forgettable alternative music

Great album

Nothing about it was bad, in fact, I quite enjoyed what I heard. I just ended up zoning out from it.

Instrumental performances, engineering and production are competent, but the song arrangement, the non-sensical lyrics, and very weak lead vocal performance make this album dreadfully dull to listen to. No new ideas to be found, just retreads. I feel like I heard the same song on repeat throughout the whole album with little to no differentiation.

Lambchop has some good songs, unfortunately none of them are on this album.

This was a nice chill listen in a cold rainy day. There was a couple of songs with a bit of a soul vibe (You Masculine You and What Else Could It Be?) which I enjoyed the most. The rest was ok nothing outstanding. 5/10

Did not really find it interesting.

The country pop side of the record was pretty good, but the falsetto parts grated a bit too much. For anyone interested in massively different takes on the same song, try comparing "Butcher Boy" off this record to "Lankum - Go Dig my Grave". When I realised it was the same song I had a little chuckle to myself.

Didn't speak to me

Reminds me of Nick Drake but I like it less.

Beautiful, wistful album, not sure why it's not getting much love on here. Lambchop are new to me - brought to mind slower elements of Super Furry Animals/Gruff Rhys crossed with Grandaddy. You can hear some turn of the century vibes, but overall I found this had a pretty timeless sound.

Not for me

Never heard of Lambchop and I'm perfectly content to never hear them or of them ever again. This is boring, unlistenable crap.

this was an interesting album. I enjoyed it, and it was not what I was expecting either. No single song stood out to a point where I said, I have to have this, but lots of songs stuck out where i went to go and see what the song was. It has prompted me to want to listen to a few more of their albums. Petrified Florist was great. 3.5 stars

Ehh… fairly uninteresting country album? Not a whole lot stands out here.

British alternative music? Not really bad, just boring.

I kinda liked it. Never heard of 'em. Weird at first, not crazy about the guys voice, but it grew on me. Even went to listen to other albums of theirs. Will be back!

Chillovo

This album is yet more evidence that I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, or music based on the band name. I don’t know why but this isn’t at all what I was expecting from a band called Lambchop. I was fairly indifferent for most of this album, but I enjoyed Up with People, the Petrified Florist, and Butcher Boy. Probably not enough to ever revisit this album though. Favourite tracks: Up with People, the Petrified Florist, the Butcher Boy

the singing is pretty difficult to listen to at times but the instrumental was tasty

did nothing for me, couldn't even finish it

There are parts of this I like a lot, but the. The falsetto comes in

Not sure how this was never on my radar. These are really moody, languid songs. It’s like listening to a set of short stories.

This might be the most boring album I've attempted to listen to.

Blah

Ok for background music

Masterpiece

Definitely an innovative and dynamic album. I appreciated the variance between serenity and chaos. While I appreciate many aspects of it, it's not really my thing.

It's like early 2000s Nick Lowe made an uninteresting album of ballads. Stick with Nick.

This whole album sounds the same to me.

It's not bad but it's not buttering my parsnips

Not good at all

Utterly tedious.

What am I missing here? I've heard similar music waiting on hold.

Cool

Best!

I went from Soundgarden to this..... To say that was a disappointment is an understatement. This isn't bad, per se....it's just boring. There's nothing there. It's the kind of music that plays in the background at the grocery store to fill the silence. I looked at Lambchop's page on Wikipedia and they apparently had 20 different musicians that contributed to the album. 13 of those were actually in Lambchop, officially. I would have expected more complexity.