German-American indie punk outfit LAWN CHAIR is set to make waves with their highly anticipated debut album, YOU WANT IT! YOU GOT IT!, slated for release on September 5th, 2025. Today the Berlin-based outfit shares new single ‘War Machine’, accompanied by a new live video, the single is a poignant tribute to front woman Claudia Schlutius’ father.  

Over the past three years, the Berlin-based band has carved out a reputation as one of Germany’s most vital and uncompromising new bands. Formed around Seattle-born vocalist and lyricist Claudia Schlutius, the five-piece has brought their exhilarating live energy to festivals like The Great Escape, Reeperbahn, and Fusion, toured the UK and Germany, and shared stages with Sleaford Mods, Primal Scream, Getdown Services, DEADLETTER, and more. With two EPs produced alongside Olaf Opal (The Notwist) and Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), they’ve already made serious noise. But YOU WANT IT! YOU GOT IT! marks their most expansive and self-assured work to date.

Written during a time of personal and creative transition (as Schlutius and guitarist Eric Haupt relocated from Cologne to Berlin), YOU WANT IT! YOU GOT IT! was crafted between November 2023 and September 2024, with extensive pre-production shaping its unique sound. The album’s title, a lyric drawn from ‘The Next Big Thing’, is a tongue-in-cheek response to the relentless demands of the music industry. Lyrically and sonically, the album draws inspiration from the absurdities of late-stage capitalism, fragile male egos, the never-ending quest for inner peace, and Schlutius’ own complicated relationship with both her family and her U.S. origins.

Their new single ‘War Machine’is a tribute to her aging father, a Vietnam veteran and commercial fisherman in Alaska, whose fiercely independent spirit left its mark on her. “You’re a War Machine” becomes a line directed both outward and inward, a recognition of inherited restlessness and the fragility of the people we admire.

Live Shows

06.09.25 Darlington, Last Train Home
09.09.25 Hull, Polar Bear Music Club
18.09.25 Southampton, Heartbreakers
19.09.25 London, The Elephants Head
20.09.25 Bristol, The Lanes
21.09.25 Brighton, The Prince Albert
02.10.2025 – DE, Bremen, Lagerhaus
03.10.2025 – DE, Dortmund, Subrosa
04.10.2025 – DE, Berlin, Schokoladen
07.10.2025 – DE, Mainz schon schön
10.10.2025 – DE, Karlsruhe, KOHI
11.10.2025 – DE, Freiburg, Slowclub
22.10.2025 – DE, Köln, Bumann
23.10.2025 – DE, Hamburg, Komet