Lawn debut ‘Barroom Wonder’ from highly anticipated album God Made The Highway
Lawn have unveiled ‘Barroom Wonder,’ the final single from their forthcoming fourth album God Made The Highway, out September 19th via Exploding In Sound.
The New Orleans band, led by co-lead singers and songwriters Mac Folger and Rui De Magalhaes, delivers a power pop gem that captures their jangly, idiosyncratic style. Known for blending playful guitars, sharp rhythms, and harmonies grounded in tight songwriting, Lawn turns their observational songwriting toward cultural commentary, creating a track that’s as clever as it is catchy.
Folger says of the track:
“‘Barroom Wonder’ came together as a series of one-line thoughts, all vaguely based on the increasingly common cultural exchange between residents of major coastal cities and mid-sized cities in the southeast. As the music and culture of the south has piqued the interest of a wider, more metropolitan audience-and cosplay of blue collar and cowboy aesthetics has become increasingly accessible – the places and practices that defined these underrecognized communities have become more hollowed out and commodified. The song personifies this phenomenon as a fictional character, attempting to define themselves based on an adopted culture. A corporate lifestyle by day funds his collection of cowboy boots, and tailored wranglers. He has delusions of authenticity, lamenting his former life in the big city before he found “real culture.”
‘Barroom Wonder’ is out now.
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