Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Carcass before splitting up in 1981

before splitting up in 1981

“It's the weirdest

pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl

Tweedy invited the band to record at the storied Loft in Chicago

The title track is about a thinly disguised ex-lover who calls up out of the blue

Punching The Clown: Black Vinyl LP Carcass before splitting up in 1981Lambchop's seventeenth album Punching the Clown finds Kurt Wagner returning to first principles. Sparked by a late night radio encounter with an unidentified gospel recording, Wagner fell deep into the world of "lined out singing" a centuries old Scots Appalachian call and response tradition in which a lone clerk leads a choir through hymns, word by unadorned word. That spirit of raw, communal voice shapes every moment of Punching the Clown: Wagner