Lambchop Announce New Album FLOTUS, Share 18-Minute Track “The Hustle”: Listen

Kurt Wagner has announced his first new Lambchop album since 2012’s excellent Mr. M. FLOTUS (which is an abbreviation for For Love Often Turns Us Still—not First Lady of the United States) is out November 4 via Merge. The album’s press release notes that the songs on the album are Wagner’s “homage” to music by artists like Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, and Shabazz Palaces “garbled through grocery store speakers and tiny cell phones.” The lead single from the album is “The Hustle”—an 18-minute track. Find the track as well as the album’s trailer, artwork, and tracklist below.

In a statement, Wagner told the story behind “The Hustle”:

My wife and I attended this wedding of one her colleagues in the countryside outside of Nashville. Weddings are a heady mix of emotions, memories, and events that can be quite rich in imagery. With this being a Quaker wedding, there was a lack of “officiating” in that the bride and groom addressed each other directly the entire time. This was something that I found to be most touching. Beyond that, as with much of my writing, I tend to describe experiences in an almost journalistic fashion and then strip things down till there is barely a thread to hold them together—in this case, starting with the vows and then moving on from there. The entire wedding party was doing this great synchronized dance step that I hadn’t seen before. I asked my wife what dance it was, and she told me it was the Hustle. She suggested I join them. I respectfully declined.

FLOTUS:

01 In Care of 8675309
02 Directions to the Can
03 FLOTUS
04 JFK
05 Howe
06 Old Masters
07 Relatives #2
08 Harbor Country
09 Writer
10 NIV
11 The Hustle

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