Pre-Order: Lambchop * Punching the Clown [New LP] 2024-11-08 With neither vocalist dedicated as

With neither vocalist dedicated as the "harsh" or "clean" singer the lyrics and moods shift across each song from blunt and bloody revenge fantasies

This release opens with the ballet-chante satire The Seven Deadly Sins

but it is an altogether more successful work than No

bolder and more driven than ever

Pre-Order: Lambchop * Punching the Clown [New LP] 2024-11-08 With neither vocalist dedicated asTo hear Kurt Wagner tell it, Punching the Clown the seventeenth album by beloved shapeshifting Nashville institution Lambchop, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records and City Slang began as a ghost hunt. After hearing a song on the radio while driving one night "a minimal single chord strummed banjo and a small group of voices" he went looking for it and failed. In his pursuit, he discovered "lined out singing, " a form of acapella call and response