To 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. - - Fifteen years later Lambchop continue to confound and astound in equal measure. With their sound consistently shifting and surprising the band's line-up has morphed and adapted repeatedly since then but the extraordinary idiosyncratic Is a Woman is now considered to be one of the band's finest. As Wagner himself asks on "Bugs": "Think of things and how they got this way/ Way above the rest/ Isn't this the f***ing best?" - - TracksCredits - - Disc 1 - - 1 The Daily Growl - 2 The New Cobweb Summer - - Disc 2 - - 1 My Blue Wave - 2 I Can Hardly Spell My Name - 3 Autumn's Vicar - - Disc 3 - - 1 Flick - 2 Caterpillar - 3 D. Scott Parsley - - Disc 4 - - 1 Bugs - 2 The Old Matchbook Trick - 3 Is a Woman