For Lambchop’s special TRIP LP (out November 13 in North America), each member of the all-star sextet assembled over the last two albums was tasked with choosing one song for the band to cover and leading the recording session. Lambchop head honcho Kurt Wagner says, “My idea was to see what might happen if I removed myself from the process as much as possible. In doing so, what surfaced would be elements that have always been there but maybe got overshadowed by my songwriting and approach.”

Lambchop’s drummer and saxophonist Andy Stack (also of Wye Oak and Joyero) looked to the Stevie Wonder catalog and brought “Golden Lady” off 1973’s Innervisions to the table. The result is delightfully woozy, coating the composition in skittering hi-hats and electronic flourishes, and extending it to nearly seven minutes.

Stack says: 
I wanted to choose an earnest love song, a chance to display the tenderness that we’ve come to know from Kurt, Tony, and the boys. But love is complex, and we discovered that you never find tenderness without a hint of melancholy, darkness, and maybe a little Xanax.

Recorded December 2–7, 2019, at Battletapes in Nashville, TN, ​TRIP​ sounds like a culmination of Lambchop’s past and present. There’s a looseness and freedom that recalls their older sound mixed with a group sophistication and innovation derived through the process of playing together for so long. 

Pre-order TRIP on CD, LP, and coke-bottle clear & yellow swirl Peak Vinyl, the latter packaged with a limited-edition blotter paper print.