Today, Lambchop return with the Basement Tapes EP, featuring new track “So modern and so tight”—written in part with Matthew McCaughan and mixed by visual artist Andrew Broder—as well as remixes of two highlights from This (is what I wanted to tell you) by Raven and Group Listening. The EP arrives today on digital services just ahead of the group’s November 2 performance at NYC’s Murmrr Theatre.

Listen to Lambchop’s Basement Tapes EP now

Bandleader Kurt Wagner goes into more detail about each track below:

“So modern and so tight”
This mix was created by Andrew Broder, a visual artist, musician, and producer from the wilds of Minneapolis. We met during the PEOPLE gathering in Berlin last summer. It was based on a track that I had started with Matthew McCaughan that was part of a group of songs we were working on for This (is what I wanted to tell you). Andrew edited and re-imagined the piece into something quite lovely and mysterious. So much in fact it’s really not so much a remix but a new song unto itself.

“Crosswords, or what this says about you (Raven Remix)”
I don’t know a lot about Raven, but when I heard this remix, it had a certain inherent English feel to it that I liked. It has a sort of lost ’80s dance thing going on in it, and somehow Raven makes the song into something hooky, maybe catchy even. Something I’ve strived for on occasion but have never been able to achieve. I guess I’m just not wired that way. But if I was, I might have made something like this (ha), but then who am I kidding?

“This is what I wanted to tell you (Group Listening Remix)”
Group Listening are really unique in their approach; I find it more akin to what I think is the potential of the “remix” medium. It’s conceptual and allows for them to create something that is based on who “they” are and what “they” do as musicians, yet it’s still intrinsically related to the source material. The results are true and clearly beautiful.