Lambchop - Punching the Clown - Frosted Clear Color Vinyl Record
It started with a song Kurt Wagner heard on the radio one night and could never find again. A single strummed banjo chord and a small group of voices. Hunting for it led him to lined out singing, the Scots Appalachian call and response tradition where a clerk speaks a line of a hymn alone and the choir swells up behind him. Wagner wanted to make a record that felt like that.
Punching the Clown is Lambchop's seventeenth album, tracked in three days at April Base with producer Ryan Olson and engineer Mark Nevers, back on a Lambchop record for the first time since 2012. Andrew Broder co-wrote the songs and plays guitar, Justin Vernon plays banjo, and a six part choir runs through the whole thing. Twelve songs survived from dozens written. Wry, graceful, occasionally devastating, and cut in mono with a locked groove at the end of side two.
Peak Vinyl pressing on translucent Frosted Clear, single matte jacket with a printed inner sleeve.
Side A
1. Just West of Nicollet
2. A Doctor in the House
3. Weakened
4. Stella
5. Punching the Clown
6. White People
Side B
1. The New World Wave
2. Andrew Jackson Asshat
3. Afterburner
4. Cigar
5. To Do
6. No Chicago
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Lambchop - Punching the Clown - Frosted Clear Color Vinyl Record
