This (is what I wanted to tell you)

"Wagner has gone all-in on his vocoded mutter, and he's reconfigured his songwriting to accommodate it, trimming away the chamber-pop adornments and merry excesses that once distinguished Lambchop's records to center each song around his gentle prose ... Wagner's quarter-century track record with Lambchop only underscores what a gem This is. He's made great records before, even exciting and unexpected ones, but never one so comforting and compassionate".

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"Lambchop's new album This (is what I wanted to tell you) is a grave lounge album. Continuing in the electronic direction of 2016's FLOTUS, This... features Kurt Wagner and his assembled musicians (including co-songwriter Matthew McCaughan) pushing deeper into the sonic experimentation Wagner introduced on that stylistic departure of an album ... It's a heavy listen, but potentially a rapturous one as well, for anyone who has ever experienced a reverie of aging and all it entails. "Now you are here ... Now you are gone."".

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"This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) takes the listener someplace they haven't been before, and in this case that includes the fictive homelands of Nixon and Mr. M, but it's also a place worth visiting. While this is hardly country or fucked up, it's strange, beautiful, and the sort of thing only Kurt Wagner could create, and we're lucky to have him around".

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"Wagner has gone all-in on his vocoded mutter, and he's reconfigured his songwriting to accommodate it, trimming away the chamber-pop adornments and merry excesses that once distinguished Lambchop's records to center each song around his gentle prose ... Wagner's quarter-century track record with Lambchop only underscores what a gem This is. He's made great records before, even exciting and unexpected ones, but never one so comforting and compassionate".

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"Kurt Wagner eksperimenterer også med elektronik. Man kan spørge, hvorfor den 60-årige sanger i Nashville-bandet Lambchop føler behov for at rode med elektronisk stemmemodulering, når han råder oven en svært behagelig, dybt melankolsk stemme. Men kan man abstrahere fra disse noget særprægede påfund, så kan man også glæde sig over, at dette 13. album fra Lambchop indeholder en række af karrierens hidtil stærkeste sange".

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"Siden begyndelsen af 1990'erne har Lambchops Kurt Wagner puslet rundt i periferien af genrerne country og postrock og har undervejs skabt sin helt egen ... Lambchop opleves mere som én langsomt flydende musikfortælling ... i 2016, da en duvende forliebthed i elektronik og autotune resulterede i et af de smukkeste udspil (...) 'Flotus' (For Love Often Turns Us Still) var et lille mesterværk, som i nogen grad kaster sin skygge over 'This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)' ... Fusionen af elektronik og steelguitar på 'The December-ish You' er en åbenbaring, men i forhold til 'Flotus' er 'This' en knap så inspireret variation over temaet".

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"Siden begyndelsen af 1990'erne har Lambchops Kurt Wagner puslet rundt i periferien af genrerne country og postrock og har undervejs skabt sin helt egen ... Lambchop opleves mere som én langsomt flydende musikfortælling ... i 2016, da en duvende forliebthed i elektronik og autotune resulterede i et af de smukkeste udspil (...) 'Flotus' (For Love Often Turns Us Still) var et lille mesterværk, som i nogen grad kaster sin skygge over 'This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)' ... Fusionen af elektronik og steelguitar på 'The December-ish You' er en åbenbaring, men i forhold til 'Flotus' er 'This' en knap så inspireret variation over temaet".

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