LAWN DEBUT "BARROOM WONDER"

Posted on September 15th, 2025

Lawn will release their fourth LP, God Made The Highway, this Friday, September 19th via Exploding In Sound Records. A New Orleans band that revolves around the creative partnership of co-lead singers and songwriters Mac Folger and Rui De Magalhaes, the album has so far seen the release of three singles, with praise from outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum, FADER, BrooklynVegan, Paste and a host of others.

Today, the band are sharing a final preview of the LP, a power-pop gem entitled "Barroom Wonder."

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 under-recognized 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”