Lambchop “Punching The Clown”

Album Review: Lambchop – Punching The Clown

It might sound trite and oversimplified to label what Kurt Wagner and Lambchop have gone through so far as a ‘long and winding road’, but it feels apt. It was a long 40 years ago now that the embryo of Lambchop emerged as a trio called Posterchild that started in 1986 and soon had to change their name. And since then, the course has definitely been winding, with all membership changes (lineups have been shifting depending on the musical context …

Lambchop “Punching The Clown”

Kurt Wagner’s very individual vision takes another sharp turn. Kurt Wagner, for he is the constant in Lambchop’s story, delivers the band’s 16th album and like most of those that have come before, it’s hard to know what to expect from this most singular of Nashville’s creative forces. Having come to international prominence with the release of Nixon in 2000 and Is a Woman in 2002, the band have disappeared beneath the waterline somewhat in recen…