Lambchop - 'Punching the Clown' Album Review

Lambchop - 'Punching the Clown' album review

Lambchop - 'Punching the Clown'4 On the 17th Lambchop album, Punching the Clown, Kurt Wagner proves that he still has plenty of ideas in the tank. Infusing his typical stylings with the ancient Scottish ‘lined out singing’ technique, with the help of Andrew Broder, Justin Vernon, and a full choir helmed by Blake Morgan, could this be one of the best Lambchop albums since their formation in 1986? The Skinny: It’s not every day that you hear somet…

Lambchop's 'Punching the Clown' Is Worth the 4-Year Wait » PopMatters

With acoustic guitar and banjo, Lambchop return to their Nashville roots, while the choruses create yet another idiosyncratic background for musings on America.

Lambchop: Punching the Clown review – spectral, spellbindingly ambiguous stirring of US history

(City Slang) Sounding weathered but undimmed, Kurt Wagner feels as if he’s standing right in front of you as he sings superb, choir-swathed songs that invite and unsettle Thirty-two years on from their debut album – and 26 from Nixon, the gorgeous country/soul confection that brought “Nashville’s most fucked-up country band” to a wider audience…

Lambchop’s 'Punching the Clown' Turns Americana Into Something Beautifully Strange (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Lambchop is a group (practically an institution) that has haunted the outer dark of Nashville, TN, since it started life as Posterchild in 1986. Both a band and a moniker, Lambchop’s tangled nest of shifting personnel and hinted-at musical styles belongs to one Kurt Wagner, whose picture on the band’s website calls to mind the faintly touched snake-oil salesman of bygone America. For forty years, Wagner has fronted this band through early record…

Lambchop: Punching the Clown

Clowns have nothing to fear. The title of Kurt Wagner's long-lasting band collective Lambchop is not...Read the full article on FALTER.at