Lambchop Announce New Album

BY Brock ThiessenPublished Jul 24, 2008

After a two-year between album break, the soulful folkies of Lambchop are set to release the follow-up to 2006’s Damaged. On October 7, Merge Records will drop OH (ohio), the long-running Nashville outfit’s tenth album proper.

After road-testing many of the album’s songs on a 2007 European solo tour, front-man Kurt Wagner entered Nashville’s Beech House studio with producer and sometimes ’Chopper Mark Nevers. Wagner also came sporting a smaller, tighter collection of backing players, cutting down the band’s line-up, which has at times featured more than 20 musicians, to a solid six.

"This is the first record where I’ve written and picked the songs and chose the producers to make it, then stepped away,” Wagner said of OH (ohio) in a press release. "Lambchop more and more has become a vehicle for my songs and myself as an artist. I’ve fought against that interpretation for 20 years, but now I’ve just given up trying to fight it anymore. I am simply going to accept that this is how it’s evolved and leave it to others to define."

Wagner is also planning a solo U.S. tour in support of OH (ohio), with the tour dates to be announced shortly.

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