Trapper Schoepp’s seventh LP Osborne borrows its name from a unit at the Betty Ford clinic – a place where the Wisconsin musician ended up after a decade of dependence on prescription pain meds. Just one month after being released from the legendary treatment facility, a clean and revived Schoepp was in the basement of a California church recording this record.
To call it personal almost feels like an under- statement. Though the music is often upbeat, the lyrics reveal a much darker narrative. He confronts his addiction head-on with the opening track, “Loaded.” This mid-tempo indie-pop song, with its infectious chorus, traces the roots of his struggle: a pain management doctor who not only prescribed the pills but even provided advance…

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