It took some getting used to when the band around Kurt Wagner made a switch from americana to electronics on (2016). If that habituation has already taken place, successor This Is What I Wanted To Tell You offers a slightly less radical turnaround. Just like on Flotus, the electronic beats dominate, supplemented by instruments such as pedal steel guitar and harmonica. You can still recognize the
… previous sound of the company in it. Wagner collaborated on this album with Matthew McCaughan, who played drums with and . The vocoder makes sure that Wagner is here as several timescomes out of the corner. On This Is What I Wanted To Tell You, the company certainly doesn't lose their atmospheric and warm sound. Lambchop knows how to capture fragility in quiet songs, but also to sound optimistic. The autotune as a style element has to be your thing. (JvQ)more
