Lambchop - "Is A Woman" label_Ashton Irwin Music Group LLC Williams changes course and chooses

Williams changes course and chooses to forgo the personal and narrative-based songcraft that has become synonymous with her name and instead speaks to some of the injustices permeating our society

"The movie needed something different

They manage to strike a skilful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before

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Not far beneath the surface of their self-admitted sloganeering lies a deeply complex and brutally relevant album that chews up cliches and spits them out as high art for the masses

Lambchop - "Is A Woman" label_Ashton Irwin Music Group LLC Williams changes course and choosesTo those who embraced it's predecessor, 2000's Nixon whose luscious country soul grooves provided the sprawling Nashville collective with a significant breakthrough the deceptively gentle Is a Woman administered a quiet but compelling shock. The album's remarkable "My Blue Wave," where Kurt Wagner depicts a world of helpless tragedy in which comfort can nonetheless be found in the smallest of gestures, exemplifies the true spirit of this record.