Kurt Wagner found himself in Minneapolis in the sweltering summer of 2021, in a decommissioned paint factory turned practice space, when everybody was still kind of looking at everybody else as a potential source of disease. He entrusted himself to this piano player, Andrew Broder, and his mad genius of a production partner, Ryan Olson. 'Ryan and Andrew, they're like two sides of my personality', Wagner says. 'And if you put them together as a team, they represent me'. This would be the first time Wagner let somebody else-not to mention somebody else without any sort of a connection to holy, old Nashville - produce a Lambchop record.