out October 1th, 2024

Chris Acker’s latest collection of songs, Famous Lunch is, in his words, a “growing pains album.” When writing the record, Acker found himself hunting for a voice that wasn’t just an imitation of the one he’d been using on the last 30 songs he’d made. “At the same time, I worked hard to find a certain voice for myself over the previous 3 records and I didn’t want to abandon that.”

Famous Lunch contains some of his best work yet (“Stubborn Eyes,” “Wouldn’t Do For You (Buddy),” “Eyelash”) and some raucous, bar-ready new joints (“Don’t You Know (Who I Think I Am),” “Cursive Proverbs”). Caught someplace in-between the cowboy laments of Jerry Reed and the tender-hearted annals of Gram Parsons, Acker puts his world on a clothesline and lets it dry out in the sun. Famous Lunch is full of confusion and fragility, but it’s  also full of love not taken for granted and a profoundly familiar ache for domesticity and a clock turned backwards.