Alternative country band Lambchop have announced that they are back with a new album. The Bible is set to be released on September 30 via Merge, according to Pitchfork. Ahead of its release, the band is giving their fans a chance to get a glimpse of what to expect on the album by releasing their lead single, “Police Dog Blues.” Frontman Kurt Wagner stated that he wrote the lead single after witnessing the social unrest in Minneapolis in 2020 while listening to Blind Blake’s song, “Police Dog Blues.”
The Bible comes after the band’s 2021 album Showtunes. Along with the release of the single, the band has shared the music video, which was directed by Issac Gale, who produced the video on the Unreal 3D graphics engine. The music video depicts a ruined and abandoned city. Well, not completely abandoned. German Shepards, which are typically police dogs, seem to be the only beings left in the ruined city. In a statement, Gale states, “We took the police dog from the song title literally and imagined a city, post cop-apocalypse, overrun by German Shepherds just kinda doing their thing. White privilege and apathy in the face of disastrous reality. I don’t think it’s stretching it to compare the police in Minneapolis—where myself and the producers of the record, Ryan Olson and Andrew Broder, all live—to a human-made catastrophic disaster.” Watch the video below.
The Bible tracklist:
01 His Song Is Sung
02 Little Black Boxes
03 Daisy
04 Whatever, Mortal
05 A Major Minor Drag
06 Police Dog Blues
07 Dylan at the Mousetrap
08 Every Child Begins the World Again
09 So There
10 That’s Music
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