Lambchop

Among the most consistently unique and rewarding American groups to emerge in the 1990s, Lambchop created an unclassifiable hybrid of country, soul, jazz, electronics, and avant-garde noise that seemed to draw from every conceivable tributary of contemporary music. Pulling together the varied elements of their music was the surreal lyrical wit and droll vocal presence of songwriter and group leader Kurt Wagner. While their label Merge Records once famously described them as "Nashville's most fucked-up country band," that description ultimately proved too limiting, as the group...