Name: Showtunes
Brand: Lambchop

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SLANG50362X

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Colour

white

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r18763735]

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Spot Gloss and Lyrics. Plays at 45RPM. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4250506839499

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Total Cap

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

SLANG50362LP

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black

Download code: Yes

Extended format: No

4250506839451

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

SLANG50362

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Digi Sleeve with Spot Gloss.

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4250506839468

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

Artist

Lambchop

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

City Slang

Kurt Wagner's signature brittle baritone is back, but that doesn't mean we're going to get a nostalgic Alt Country album. <i>Showtunes</i> 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 <i>Showtunes</i>, 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 GB