Pre-Order: Lambchop * Punching the Clown [New LP] 2024-11-08 This release opens with the

This release opens with the ballet-chante satire The Seven Deadly Sins

Robert Francis moved to an equine community south of Sunland

It's synthetic and "unnatural" nature aligns perfectly with the symbolic image of the devil (Czart) as an outsider to the natural world

but it is an altogether more successful work than No

The Outlaw

Pre-Order: Lambchop * Punching the Clown [New LP] 2024-11-08 This release opens with theTo hear Kurt Wagner tell it, Punching the Clown the seventeenth album by beloved shapeshifting Nashville institution Lambchop, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records and City Slang began as a ghost hunt. After hearing a song on the radio while driving one night "a minimal single chord strummed banjo and a small group of voices" he went looking for it and failed. In his pursuit, he discovered "lined out singing, " a form of acapella call and response