Lambchop – Punching The Clown (Merge Records/City Slang)

It’s now forty years since Lambchop mainman Kurt Wagner formed Posterchild, the band that would evolve into Lambchop in 1993 – and this record is their seventeenth studio album. Often associated with the alt-country genre, the intervening years have also seen the group also seen the band experiment with post-rock, lounge music and soul (for an example of the latter, if you haven’t heard their 2000…