An odds and sods compilation from everyone's favorite umpteen-piece Nashville collective, this disc includes recordings that span thirteen years (1987-2000) and incorporate everything from squeakily harmonized recorders taped on a bedroom four-track to lush strings and disco beats. This is obviously a treasure trove for fans, but non-fans, too, will find much to enjoy, once they have checked out some of the group's more cohesive releases, such as last year's sublime "Nixon" (Merge, 2000). There's the requisite handful of gorgeous down-beat country ballads (especially "Whitey" and a cover of Vic Chestnutt's "Miss Prissy"). There's an invigorating remix of "Up With People," from "Nixon," which massages that song's gospel-choir hook into a heavenly delirium. There's the bopping "Nine," the band's first single for Merge, with a great "deet-deet-deet" chorus. And there's the awesome "Style Monkeys," a bedroom recording from 1987, which contains the fiercest drum machine I've heard in a while. There aren't many bands out there who could do all of this under the auspices of being a country group, and the fact that Lambchop could relegate all of this musical invention to a loose-ends comp with a mediocre title and cover art is a testament to their talent and relevance.