Punching the Clown strips Lambchop down to Kurt Wagner’s weathered baritone, Andrew Broder’s acoustic guitar, Justin Vernon’s banjo and a choir answering in slow, luminous waves. Inspired by lined-out singing, the album folds American history, political unease, homesickness and oblique humor into intimate folk-country songs whose warmth carries a persistent undertow of disquiet. Album / Nashville, Tennessee, United States / August 21, 2026 / English…