Lambchop Return With New Album This Summer

Alt. country rockers Lambchop are readying their ninth studio effort for release this summer.

The Nashville collective will unload ‘Damaged’ on August 21 containing 10 tracks of all new material following the b-sides and rarities compilation ‘The Decline of Country and Western Civilization Part II: The Woodwind Years’ from earlier this year.

Kurt Wagner told Billboard of the new album: "I guess we recorded it in a few weeks in Nashville; it wasn't very long once we got into the studio. The electronica type stuff took the longest, but we had been working on the arrangements for awhile prior to going into the studio.”

"We had also played a good number of them live, and they had been played pretty well by then."

This time out Lambchop will feature up to 17 members including a whole string section on several tracks.

Wagner added on the influences drawn upon for the long player: "I think they draw from my usual, super broad pallet of influences -- Uncle Tom's Cabin, some electronica music, Dylan, and even Deadwood.”

“I was fascinated by the way they use language. It's a typical western, but a lost style of American language, and I tried to see if I could speak that way in my lyrics."

Lambchop plan to tour the album throughout Europe in August before returning to America for some extended gigging in September.

The track list is:

Paperback Bible
Prepared (2)
The Rise And Fall Of The Letter P
A Day Without Glasses
Beers Before The Barbican
I Would Have Waited Here All Day
Crackers
Fear
Short
The Decline Of Country And Western Civilization