Lambchop

***CHECK STOCK!!!  Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork.  
The shift is so subtle and unassuming, you may never notice it happens. But 42 minutes into LAMBCHOP's fourteenth studio album—the disarming but intimate confessional called This (is what I wanted to tell you)—KURT WAGNER steps forward, his voice newly unadorned. With the Auto-Tune gild of recent Lambchop records momentarily leached away, his voice is as open and honest as the acoustic guitar and lonesome harmonica that traipse beneath it. The feelings practically pour between the cracks of his stunning baritone, raw for the first time in years. This is what he wanted to tell you, plain and simple and pure. In tone poems that link poignant snapshots of everyday scenes with koan-like reflections about what it takes and means to stay alive in these modern times, Wagner limns a world that seems to be falling apart.