Punching The Clown

Description

Lambchop signs a new album between choral tradition and modernity. Thirty-three years of career, sixteen albums, and Lambchop still manages to surprise. With Punching The Clown, Kurt Wagner builds a record around an unprecedented formation: voice, choirs, banjo, and guitar. The album is born from a simple idea, rediscovered by Wagner on the radio: lining out, a choral practice from 19th century British churches. Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) participates on banjo, while two choirs, directed by Blake Morgan, structure the whole. More demanding than ever, Wagner's songwriting is in line with the great records of Lambchop, from Nixon to Is a Woman to Mr M. Kurt Wagner delivers here one of his most accomplished albums.