Lambchop - Live at XX MergeAs Merge fans know, Lambchop has been on the label since 1993, releasing a string of widely varied but consistently brilliant records. But the live Lambchop experience has been somewhat elusive in the U. S. While the band has toured the gilded theaters of Europe and elsewhere for nearly two decades, the Nashville group has seldom toured their home country. To help celebrate Merge's 20th Anniversary the band showed up in one of their largest lineups in

and roots-driven album created by American blues singer-songwriter Big Daddy Wilson together with his longtime band The Goosebumps Bros

the songs on SINGLES & SUNDRIES are essential vantage points

The easy-to-follow

until they befriend a demon named Az

reading words by Vincent Van Gogh written about love

"Rock You" was covered by fellow Canucks

Trente on this new opus explores unexpected grounds like "L'horizon des lendemains" where Alain Bournel's keyboard (Peter Alexander Band)

The album sees Katie reflecting on her place in the world

which still has no fixed and prescribed instrumentation

made in the theatre of the Palazzo Altemps in Rome where del Cinque often performed

she recorded the two cello sonatas of Brahms with Roderic von Bennigsen

"Paradise"