Lambchop have released a new song called ‘Fuku’. It’s taken from their upcoming album Showtunes and it comes with an accompanying video directed by Doug Anderson. Watch it below.
“There is a theatricality to the song ‘Fuku’ which is a thread that runs through the Showtunes idea,” Kurt Wagner said in a statement. “Doug Anderson responded to that like a cat to catnip. On first viewing, the visual might appear a bit unusual, foreign even, but trust me, it could have been a lot weirder.”
Anderson added:
I heard Kurt’s song and was absolutely in love. “Fuku” evokes all of the things that the musical theater reaches for but is incapable of representing: the desire, longing, and impossibility of really falling in love. It reminded me of the truth in Walter Pater’s “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” Pure and abstract.
The characters in the video try and fail to communicate their experience—they possess nothing and are incapable of giving that nothing to another. Attempting to evoke coherence from the inconsistent, disparate, and stupid. They persist.
Showtunes is out May 21 via Merge/City Slang. Previously, Lambchop shared the single ‘Chef’s Kiss’.
