Pitchfork

[Posted Monday, November 17th, 2003 06:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Lambchop, otherwise known as the largest musical collective east of The Polyphonic Spree, is getting ready to unleash not one, but two brand new full-length albums on an unsuspecting public, all G'n'R style, in 2004. According to the official Lambchop website, the new records are (somewhat preciously) titled Aw C'mon and No You C'mon.

Although the site cites Lambchop's 2000 release Nixon as the closest touchstone, a recent cryptic post gives some more detail on the sound: "These records bear only a passing resemblance to anything which has gone before. The albums are not dramatically different in style from one another, but the conceptual call and response of the titles is somewhat reflected in the choice of songs across the two." Ah, the warm embrace of the conceptual-- is there any better place for it to live than rock (or alt.country, if you prefer) music?

The cast list hasn't grown appreciably since 2002's Is a Woman, but hey, 15 members should be more than enough for us. They all have to eat, you know. Not to mention fit on a stage. Aw C'mon and No You C'mon were produced by Kurt Wagner and Nashville household name Mark Nevers. They'll both be out February 17th on Merge Records, and here are the tracklists:

Aw C'mon:

01 Being Tyler
02 Four Pounds in Two Days
03 Steve McQueen
04 The Lone Official
05 Something's Going On
06 Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train
07 Each Time I Bring It Up It Seems To Bring You Down
08 Timothy B. Schmidt
09 Women Help to Create the Kind of Men They Despise
10 I Hate Candy
11 I Haven't Heard a Word I've Said
12 Action Figure

No You C'mon:

01 Sunrise
02 Low Ambition
03 There's Still Time
04 Nothing Adventurous Please
05 The Problem
06 Shang a Dang Dang
07 About My Lighter
08 Under a Dream of a Lie
09 Jan 24
10 The Gusher
11 Listen
12 The Producer

Of course, there's no such thing as an album release without a tour (unless perhaps, you're Radiohead... or Madonna), and the details for Lambchop's next jaunt are slowly but surely coming together. According to Mary Mancini, Lambchop's webmaster (and you should definitely go check out their Friendster-styled website): "We just got a very tentative plan for a spring tour in Europe that will start on March 3rd in Amsterdam and end some time at the end of April." They'll tackle the U.S. at some point after that, and we'll fetch you the details as soon as the dates are firmed up.