Bible, The (Clear Vinyl) - By: Lambchop - Model Number: SLANG50448X

Description

Available on limited clear vinyl.
The only prophets worth a shit are the reluctant ones, and so it was that right before he started working on what would become his new album, The Bible, Lambchop™s Kurt Wagner found himself at the proverbial crossroads. Nearing the end of Lambchop™s third decade as a recording artist, Wagner felt musically isolated. He questioned whether continuing to make music even made sense. I feel weird because I™m going to be 64, dude,� he says on the phone in between drags of a cigarette. What the fuck am I doing?�

Kurt Wagner found himself in Minneapolis in the sweltering summer of 2021, in a decommissioned paint factory turned practice space, when everybody was still kind of looking at everybody else as a potential source of disease. He entrusted himself to this piano player, Andrew Broder, and his mad genius of a production partner, Ryan Olson. Ryan and Andrew, they™re like two sides of my personality,� Wagner says. And if you put them together as a team, they represent me.� This would be the first time Wagner let somebody else”not to mention somebody else without any sort of a connection to holy, old Nashville”produce a Lambchop record.

It was in that decommissioned paint factory in Minneapolis, watching a bunch of burnout freaks play their instruments, that Wagner found his way to writing The Bible. The sessions reminded him of those long-ago days at the Springwater Supper Club in Nashville when he first brought the afterparty back to his house. But maybe because he wasn™t the one making the afterparty rules this time, the music on The Bible is more unpredictable than it™s ever been on a Lambchop record. Jazz careening into country, into disco, into funk, and back to country. This is Lambchop™s new album”born in a new place, but out of a process that he first discovered back home in Nashville, the one that helped him find his own voice in the first place. Amen. This is The Bible.

Label
City Slang / Inertia

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