Lambchop - Punching The Clown - CD

Lambchop - Punching The Clown - CD

THIS IS A PRE ORDER: RELEASE DATE: 21st August 2026

Lambchop'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 spent years studying great songwriters and relearning his craft from the ground up, whittling dozens of songs down to twelve. Recorded in three days with guitarist Andrew Broder, Justin Vernon on banjo, and a six-part choir assembled by Blake Morgan and engineered by Lambchop veteran Mark Nevers, the album is graceful, wry, and quietly devastating.

Label: City Slang

Cat. No. SLANG50614 

TRACKLIST

01 Just West of Nicollet
02 A Doctor in the House
03 Weakened
04 Stella
05 Punching the Clown
06 White People
07 The New World Wave
08 Andrew Jackson Asshat
09 Afterburner
10 Cigar
11 To Do
12 No Chicago