To help celebrate Merge’s 20th anniversary, the band showed up in one of its largest lineups ever—11 strong, including multiple guitars, keyboards, piano, and a horn section. While Lambchop performing live is always a powerful proposition, on this night they started quietly with “I Will Drive Slowly” from their first album (I Hope You’re Sitting Down / Jack's Tulips) and accelerated from there, each song seemingly faster and more intensely played than the last, building to a furious finale of “Up With People” and an epic “Give It.” By the end of Lambchop’s set, everyone in the packed Cat’s Cradle—band and audience both—was levitating a few inches off the ground.