If you haven’t heard of them, you probably aren’t from Nashville, France, or the UK. Touted as “Nashville’s most f*cked-up country band”, Lambchop is arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American band to have emerged during the 90s. Their unclassifiable hybrid of country, soul, jazz, and avant-garde noise seemed at one time or another to drink from every conceivable tributary of contemporary music, its baroque beauty all held together by the surreal lyrical wit and droll vocal presence of frontman Kurt Wagner. Lambchop aren’t influenced by country music – they influence country music. Their music is even smoother than Del Reeves, and they have more musicians than Tanya Tucker’s bathroom antics: two guitars, one bass, two drummers, pedal steel guitar, open-end wrenches, lacquer-thinner can, organ, xylophone, euphonium, trombone, baritone sax, trumpet, clarinet, bongoes, resonating metal square, and a vanilla extract bottle… And live, Lambchop are one of the hypest acts around.