Lambchop: Elegy for a friend and mentor, bathed in Sinatra strings

IF YOU'RE GOING TO TRY SOMETHING NEW, you might as well learn from the best. There aren't many records categorised by iTunes as indie rock that can plausibly claim to take their musical cues from Frank Sinatra. But Mr M, the sumptuously affecting eleventh studio album by Nashville country-soul chamber orchestra Lambchop, does just that.