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Lambs of Abortion

Tonight @ Club Garibaldi, 10 p.m.

by Shepherd Express Staff

Apr. 11, 2009

midnight

It must be tough to be Lambs of Abortion, a paranoid Milwaukee band convinced that everyone’s out to get them. Republicans, Fox News, oil executives and Evangelical leaders are at the heart of the worldwide conspiracy that Lambs of Abortion dutifully try to untangle with their raw-throated punk, a country-tinted throwback to second-wave punk acts like The Descendents, Rites of Spring and The Vandals (early Vandals, that is).

Comments (11)

Emeralds.... best of 2010...

Emeralds.... best of 2010

Anonymous more than 13 years ago

Couldn't agree with you more on One For The Team. ...

Couldn't agree with you more on One For The Team. Great band!

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

I just want SOMEONE to acknowledge how good Childi...

I just want SOMEONE to acknowledge how good Childish Gambino's "Culdesac" is.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

I never thought "The Woods" was totally unadorned....

I never thought "The Woods" was totally unadorned. But it's still recognizable as a Bon Iver song. I can't say the same for that Kanye track. If you're gonna bury his voice under so much crap, why even bother using him?
Seems like the Kanye disc is almost as polarizing as he is. People either hate it or call it a work of genius. I still think he's a great producer (despite what he did to poor Justin) with below average MC skills.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

Kanye dropped out of my top ten the moment he deci...

Kanye dropped out of my top ten the moment he decided it'd be a good idea to auto-tune Bon Iver. So, let me get this straight, Kanye, you have a singer with one of the best, most unusual voices in music and you want to auto-tune him so he sounds like everyone else? Really? For him, guest stars might as well be knobs on his soundboard. God forbid he cede some of the spotlight. Compare the way Kanye used Bon Iver to the way the Roots used The Monsters of Folk. That, in a nutshell, is why the Roots are in my top ten and Kanye isn't. Well, that and the fact that Black Thought has twice the flow that Kanye does.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

I've seen this complaint a lot, but the truth is f...

I've seen this complaint a lot, but the truth is for the last year or two, Justin Vernon has already been happily auto-tuning himself, both on the last Bon Iver EP and the Gayngs album (and possibly on the Volcano Choir record). I actually really like the way his voice sounds vocoded; it accenuates its most distinct tones and makes it sound really soulful.I like The Roots, too, but their record fares unfavorably in this comparison. They took a pre-existing Monsters of Folk song and sampled it (lazily, in my opinion). Kanye West, on the other hand, hunted down Vernon, flew him out to the studio, and spent days recording with him, bouncing ideas of off him, creating new music with him and completely reinventing the one Bon Iver song he did sample. The end product is much more exciting as a result.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

Wait--garbageman, did you actually think the origi...

Wait--garbageman, did you actually think the original version of "The Woods" is an untreated Justin Vernon vocal? Heh. I thought Volcano Choir perfected that song until I heard what Kanye did with it--absolute genius as far as I'm concerned.
Agree with you on Black Thought, though, except more like ten times the flow.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

That's a pretty interesting list, Evan. I was veh...

That's a pretty interesting list, Evan. I was vehemently anti-Kanye until about a month ago, not just because of his antics, but due to his painfully unskilled rapping and the hype that ignored it. FANTASY--he improved every fiber of his music; still not the greatest rapper, but tolerable, especially when every other aspect of the record is flawless and emotionally crushing.
Surprised to see no MKE albums here, though! Not because "you ought to" or something, but I think the new Call Me Lightning and Goodnight Loving blow away most of your list! Ha ha, no accounting for what-moves-you...
Also, I love your description of the Yeasayer album. Gold!

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

Kanye's not the most graceful rapper, but he's got...

Kanye's not the most graceful rapper, but he's got this really fiery, mercurial delivery, and he sells sentiments that I've never heard other rappers touch on. As a rapper, he's a lot more powerful and innovative than he's given credit for. I'm going to do a separate feature on Milwaukee music; the city really had a landmark year, and there were several MKE records I listened to as much as anything else on this list. This year the music local bands produced was probably more original than ever.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

We'll have to agree to disagree; I'd say he's very...

We'll have to agree to disagree; I'd say he's very often lazy and lagging behind the beat, and NOT on purpose; inconsistent, can we agree? But I will say there are some songs--"Power" and "Monster" especially--where I'd say he does a respectable job. GOOD, even.
Looking forward to the MKE piece!

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

New single now available from The Dave Rude Band ...

New single now available from The Dave Rude Band (Tesla's guitarist) titled "Own the Night" from the upcoming CD release. Want it now? Visit http://www.daverudeband.com/ and sign up for the mailing list to receive the secret download code!

Anonymous more than 13 years ago

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