Albums of the Decade - 56. Lambchop -Flotus (2016)

56. LAMBCHOP - FLOTUS (2016)

Lambchop's Flotus was a joie de vivre of vocodered folk. Like a reinvention, a rebirth, a calming come-uppeth though; not the kind of makeover like in a salon or on a TV show.

Kurt Wagner soothes in this outing. He's a kindred spirit who sounds crisp and fuzzy at the same time. His own autotuned vocals sound as backing vocals to which there is no real lead.

As I lay on the sofa typing this on the phone, which is rare please, as I don't want to sit at the  desk, I melt into a scuzzer of an LP, the kind that Uncut Magazine gave 5 stars back in 2016.

Those five stars alerted me to a band that truly changed genre - not direction - not style - but genre - who does that? Tell me? I can tell you: Lambchop did it in 2016, with their twelfth (!!!!!!!) LP. Boom. 

Albums of 2016 - 30. LAMBCHOP - FLOTUS

30. LAMBCHOP- FLOTUS 

Album #12 for this band, though not really a band. I have been informed, mostly with paramount trust from a man who know longer speaks backtalk, that it's mainly the work of Kurt Wagner, and that suffice to say is enough for me, with sacred faith, tantamount to everlasting friendship in music.

FLOTUS is the sound of an artist sonically reinventing himself with vocoders and even electronic beats here and there. But these devices are peppered in there. Just like when a paramount man seasons his beefy steak, or cuts a pineapple ring to sling with a pork as a medallion. Did he bring the peas?

Lambchop have really delivered an album to sink into. The running time is over an hour, so I'd honestly smoke a pipe, literally and metaphorically, ambitiously and with cowardice. Here layeth a band sans pretence. I've been keen since 2000's Nixon and will remaineth as long as the chances keep
a-coming.