Lambchop: I Hope You're Sitting Down/Jack's Tulips (2LP+MP3)

Format: 2LP/Dow
Genre: Alternative
Label: CITY SLANG
Release Date: 11.12.2021
Order Number: SLANG50403LP

Back in 1994, when Lambchop first lurched lackadaisically into public view, they seemed to many people freakish, outlandish, destined at best for the pages of photocopied fanzines and the graveyard hours of specialist radio stations. A sprawling collective of Nashville musicians—eleven were credited on the sleeve of I Hope You’re Sitting Down / Jack’s Tulips, one of them apparently responsible for “open-end wrenches”—they’d named themselves after a sock puppet, inexplicably given their album two titles, and stuck a painting on the cover of a small, barefooted child holding a dog whose cock and balls are on proud display. Perhaps to counteract this bold depiction of canine masculinity, the inner sleeve offered a black-and-white shot of what the more refined sometimes call a “lady garden.” The back cover offered a painting detail of a wedding dress. So far, so weird. Where Lambchop brought us was somewhere so singular and bewilderingly gripping that—to perhaps no one’s greater surprise than the band themselves, whose homeland remained baffled for quite some years to come—the album ended up in British music paper NME’s Top 50 Albums of the Year. In case anyone were to consider this an anomaly, France’s similarly influential Les Inrockuptibles placed it at number 25 on their own list. Not bad for a band who had gathered since the mid-1980s, once a week, purely for pleasure, in that smoky, dimly lit basement. Not bad, either, for a record whose sessions were initially only expected to produce enough material for a handful of 7-inch singles. Disheveled yet tender, anarchic yet intricate, I Hope You’re Sitting Down / Jack’s Tulips instead provided the springboard for a career—still ongoing, despite repeated reinventions, and still compelled by stubbornly freakish, outlandish intentions—during which Lambchop’s ever-changing line-up has continued to confound expectations. Wagner, meanwhile, remains one of our most cryptic but crucial voices, an authentic poet of the magical banal. Sure, it was weird here, but it was wonderful, too. Over a quarter century later, it still is. Formats: - Black 2LP in gatefold sleeve incl. MP3 download card - Limited red 2LP in gatefold sleeve incl. MP3 download card Selling Points: - Available on vinyl for the 1st time since release in 1994 - Limited coloured double LP on red vinyl (Indies only) - Original Artwork - Gatefold Cover with spot gloss - Download code Marketing: Digital Marketing campaign on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & Google Ads Lambchop Socials: https://www.facebook.com/lambchopisaband https://twitter.com/lambchopisaband https://twitter.com/lambchopisaband?lang=en http://www.lambchop.net TRACKLISTING 2LP: A1 Begin A2 Betweenus A3 Soaky In The Pooper A4 Because You Are The Very Air He Breathes B5 Under The Same Moon B6 I Will Drive Slowly B7 Oh What A Disappointment B8 Hellmouth C9 Bon Soir, Bon Soir C10 Hickey C11 Breathe Deep C12 So, I Hear You're Moving D13 Let's Go Bowling D14 What Was He Wearing? D15 Cowboy On The Moon D16 Or Thousands Of Prizes D17 The Pack Up Song