Lambchop announce new album FLOTUS, share new track “The Hustle”

Orchestral altcountry outfit Lambchop, have announced their newest effort, FLOTUS (For Love Often Turns Us Still) due out November 4th on Merge Records. On the band’s first full-length release since 2012’s Mr. M, lead singer/songwriter Kurt Wagner explores themes of his South Nashville neighborhood, penning lyrics in his consistently quirky style. A trailer accompanies the album announcement, as well as the lead single “The Hustle,” both of which you can watch below.

Describing the influences behind the lead single, Wagner explains:

“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.”