Name: Showtunes
Brand: Lambchop

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG7640CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-06-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

673855076423

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MRG7640LP

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673855076416

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Lambchop

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Merge Records

An alternative country band from Nashville, Tennessee, Lambchop (originally known as Posterchild) is known for their resistance to easy genre classification and ever-changing line up. Front man Kurt Wagner's distinctive songwriting evokes the characteristic moods of the band's style.

Kurt Wagner's signature brittle baritone is back, but that doesn't mean we're going to get a nostalgic Alt Country album. Showtunes is a continuation of Lambchop's explorations of new sound worlds and opens up another chapter. Each track is an exciting journey with an uncertain destination. With Showtunes, as he has done so many times throughout his varied and fascinating career, Kurt in late 2019 was experimenting with something new. He took simple guitar tracks and converted them into midi piano tracks. It was a revelation that from those conversions he was able to manipulate each note and add, subtract, arrange the chords and melody into a form that didn't have any of the limitations he had with his previous methods of writing with a guitar.

Removing these limitations led to a surprising new sound, something akin to showtunes but with edges sanded down and viewed through Kurt's own specific lens. it's a genre he was none too fond of with the exceptions of a few Great American Songbook type of stuff or some of the works of artists like Tom Waits, early Randy Newman or even Gershwin or Carmichael.

Co-produced by Grammy Award winning Jeremy Ferguson. Recorded with James McNew (Yo La Tengo) Ryan Olson - (Gayngs and Poliça) and Andrew Broder (Fog)

Showtunes

Music US