For more than a decade, Lambchop has made some of the most sublime and eclectic albums in popular music — composites of offbeat country, folk, soul and chamber pop, all colored by Kurt Wagner's whispered baritone and literate, impressionistic lyrics. OH (Ohio) finds the group's folkier tendencies on parade in songs like opener "Ohio," in which Wagner's odd (and very Southern) phrasing comes off like Willie Nelson covering Burt Bacharach, and "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed," for which he borrows lyrics from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." On the gently soulful "A Hold of You," he ponders a pencil that "writes crazy things" and "never runs out of lead." Wagner's weaknesses are his dragging tempos and tendency to be overly precious, and OH suffers from these more than other recent Lambchop outings. But with such consistently strong lyrics and Wagner's warm and intimate delivery, a precious Lambchop disc that drags a little is still far more interesting than most of what's filed under alternative country these days.