LAMBCHOP - Punching The Clown STING the album is indicative of

the album is indicative of the band pushing beyond indie rock conventions into new creative ground

Thanks to the internet and streaming and listening to music without context the echo got louder and louder

nothing is off the table when he’s looking for his poetic voice

got guests in and the musical policy was whatever we felt like that day

that must fit a certain criteria: it must give him goosebumps

LAMBCHOP - Punching The Clown STING the album is indicative ofLambchop's seventeenth album Punching the Clown finds Kurt Wagner returning to first principles. Sparked by a late night radio encounter with an unidentified gospel recording, Wagner fell deep into the world of "lined out singing" a centuries old Scots Appalachian call and response tradition in which a lone clerk leads a choir through hymns, word by unadorned word. That spirit of raw, communal voice shapes every moment of Punching the Clown: Wagner