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Recent News & Press

11-12-2007 LIVE REVIEW: Audience transfixed by a truly special gig (Irish Independent)

11-10-2007 LIVE REVIEW: Kurt Wagner, National Centre for Early Music (York Press)

1-24-2007 LIVE REVIEW: Lambchop: a great Sunday roast (bbc.co.uk)

1-24-2007 REVIEW: Damanged (Pop Matters)

12-9-2006 NEWS: Observer Music Monthly Names "Damaged" One of the Best 20 Albums of the Year

In their next issue, OMM review the best 20 albums of the year.
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11-20-2006 NEWS: 'Damaged' named one of Uncut's Top 50 Albums Of The Year

10-25-2006 LIVE REVIEW: Quiet, please, for an evening of wistful beauty (Telegraph UK)

"The recent and rather sombre Damaged album formed the core of the performance, and they played it beautifully, with the strings in particular giving the music warmth and wings, while William Tyler's guitar work added a ghostly flavour."
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10-5-2006 NEWS: Kurt lends his voice to lead track on the new X-Press 2 release

"And as far as feel good goes, the Kurt Wagner-assisted Give It is up there with the best of them, working well in its album format as it builds to a euphoric chorus." --Ben Hogwood, MusicOMH.com
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9-27-2006 LIVE REVIEW: Lambchop's Wagner, fans on first-name basis at show (Chicago Tribune)

"When the group was playing, however, it was impossible to pay attention to anything other than the music..."
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9-27-2006 INTERVIEW: Well Done (Seattle Weekly)

"There's a palpable sense of ache and misery across its 10 tracks, thanks to wordplay that's vivid even when the narratives and designs themselves prove slippery."
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9-25-2006 LIVE REVIEW: Alt-cow punk poetry of everyday living (Newsday)

"The group's ace-in-sleeve is its ability to parse out big rushes of sound into small, measured doses."
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9-16-2006 INTERVIEW: 'Damaged' but Still Determined (Washington Post)

"Still, there is something different about "Damaged." Lambchop has done spare before; the new album feels spartan, its emotions raw and expose..."
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9-13-2006 INTERVIEW: Merging into Maturity (The Independent Weekly)

"...when it comes to the M. Ward/ Lambchop/ Portastatic triple-bill at the Cat's Cradle this Tuesday...maturity is practically a gig-defining trait."
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9-10-2006 REVIEW: Extremely tasty serving (Courier-Mail)

"You can never leave one of their offerings without having learnt something, often about yourself."
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8-13-2006 INTERVIEW/REVIEW: Kurt Wagner on Damaged (The Sun UK)

"Dark ... new album is breathtaking."
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8-13-2006 FEATURE: Pop: Poetry in the prosaic (Sunday Times UK)

"It’s the little things in life that often inspire the greatest songs..."
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8-11-2006 REVIEW: Damaged (London Evening Standard)

"...the hushed magnificence of the Nashville ensemble remains a thing of rare beauty."
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8-11-2006 REVIEW: Damaged (Guardian Unlimited UK)

"It's a fitting moment of personal redemption to close what is patently one of the records of the year."
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8-4-2006 REVIEW: Pop CD of the Week (Telegraph.co.uk)

"...it reveals itself as a thing of strange and seductive beauty."
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8-3-2006 INTERVIEW: Damaged, The dark side of a trip to the dentist (Telegraph.co.uk)

Lambchop's new album is their darkest yet, but it ends on a redemptive note.
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