Lambchop share new track ‘Fuku’ along with mini-film

LAMBCHOP SHARE NEW TRACK ‘FUKU’ ALONG WITH MINI-FILM

NEW ALBUM SHOWTUNES, OUT 21 MAY VIA CITY SLANG

Watch the ‘Fuku’ mini-film here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP8SGpb0PTc

The mini-film originally premiered via The Fader alongside an interview with Kurt, check that out here:
https://www.thefader.com/2021/04/12/lambchop-kurt-wagner-showtunes-fuku-interview-premiere-stream-eaux-claires-merge-records

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Lambchop recently announced a new album, Showtunes will be released 21 May via City Slang. Along with the announcement the band shared new single ‘A Chef’s Kiss‘. Today they follow up with new track ‘Fuku’ and its accompanying mini-film. ‘Fuku’ is a highly imaginative and immersive experience that blends sounds both natural and synthetic. The mini-film was conceived and directed by Doug Anderson and involves three characters who awaken from a torpor induced by a successful ritual, a powerful drug, or an unending rehearsal.

Kurt says of the track/mini-film:
“There is a theatricality to the song ‘Fuku’ which is a thread that runs through the Showtunes idea. Doug Anderson responded to that like a cat to catnip. On first viewing, the visual might appear a bit unusual, foreign even, but trust me, it could have been a lot weirder.”

Anderson had this to say about the song and his mini-film:
“I heard Kurt’s song and was absolutely in love. “Fuku” evokes all of the things that the musical theater reaches for but is incapable of representing: the desire, longing, and impossibility of really falling in love. It reminded me of the truth in Walter Pater’s “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Pure and abstract.“

The characters in the video try and fail to communicate their experience—they possess nothing and are incapable of giving that nothing to another. Attempting to evoke coherence from the inconsistent, disparate, and stupid. They persist.”

In late 2019, as he has done so many times throughout his varied and fascinating career, Kurt Wagner was experimenting with something new, something that would eventually reveal itself as Lambchop’s Showtunes. By taking simple guitar tracks and converting them into MIDI piano tracks, “Suddenly I discovered I could ‘play’ the piano,” he says. “It was a revelation that from those conversions, I 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 I had with my previous methods of writing with a guitar.”

Removing these limitations led to a surprising new sound, something akin to show tunes but with edges burnished and viewed through Kurt’s own specific lens. “In general, it’s a genre I was none too fond of,” he admits, “with the exceptions of a few Great American Songbook–type of stuff or some of the works of artists like Tom Waits or early Randy Newman or even Gershwin or Carmichael. I’d always wanted to make songs with a similar feel, but my skills were limited until now.”

Pre-order Showtunes today on CD, LP, and limited white vinyl in the City Slang store and participating record shops. Also available in the City Slang store: the official Lambchop Showtunes dog calendar which spans June 2021–June 2022 and features album cover model Rookie and 12 other pups from the extended Lambchop family. All available here:
https://shop.cityslang.com/collections/lambchop

High-res images can be found here.

Praise for This (is what I wanted to tell you):

“Kurt Wagner may be America’s leading whimsical ellipticist”
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“A fucking beautiful album”
8/10 The Line of Best Fit

“Immersive and thought provoking”
4/5 Mojo“[Lambchop’s] ability to see spiritual beauty in the everyday is a life lesson in song”
4/5 The Guardian

“Hypnotic loveliness”
Sunday Times

“This album is an expertly realised triumph”
4.5/5 The Sun

“Another peak in a sprawling career”
4/5 Daily Mirror“As near to perfect as you’re ever going to get […] musically there’s not a moment here that isn’t complete and forward thinking”
10/10 God Is In The Tv

“Some of the most interesting, ambitions music off their long career”
4.5/5 MusicOMH

“Each release [is] more sonically radical than the last”
Huck

“A minimalist masterpiece”
Louder Than War