{"product_id":"boat-songs-cassette","title":"Boat Songs Cassette Tape","description":"\u003cp\u003eJake Lenderman lives in Asheville, North Carolina. He plays guitar in the indie band Wednesday, sometimes fishes on the Pigeon River, and creates his own music as MJ Lenderman. His latest solo release with Dear Life Records is titled \u003cem\u003eBoat Songs\u003c\/em\u003e. Lenderman describes the album as his most polished sound to date, built around songs that‚ chase fulfillment and happiness‚ whether that means buying a boat, drinking too much, or watching seeds fall from the bird feeder.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoat Songs\u003c\/em\u003e is the followup to Lenderman's 2021 label debut,\u003cem\u003e Ghost of Your Guitar Solo\u003c\/em\u003e, and subsequent release, \u003cem\u003eKnockin\u003c\/em\u003e, with Dear Life Records, both of which were critically acclaimed for their off-the-cuff alternative country sound. But with Boat Songs, Lenderman emerges confident as ever, an innovative yet unassuming artist, straightforward and true.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded at Asheville's Drop of Sun Studios with Alex Farrar and Colin Miller, \u003cem\u003eBoat Songs\u003c\/em\u003e is the first album Lenderman made in a professional studio. WWE matches and basketball games were silently projected on the studio walls during recording sessions. And you can hear their power in these ten unapologetically lo-fi tracks, each brimming with pent-up energy and the element of surprise.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA clavichord honks throughout \"You Have Bought Yourself A Boat\" with the playfulness of a live Dylan\/Band set. \"SUV\" screams with My Bloody Valentine distortion. When Xandy Chelmis beautifully bends his steel guitar on \"TLC Cage Match\" you can't help but think of Gram Parsons. And \"Tastes Just Like It Costs\" howls with the intensity of Crazy Horse era Neil Young. \u003cem\u003eBoat Songs\u003c\/em\u003e is fearless and it's exciting. It challenges the perception of what modern day country music is supposed to be and where it can go.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut no matter where \u003cem\u003eBoat Songs\u003c\/em\u003e goes sonically, the album is deeply rooted in Lenderman's natural gifts as a storyteller. Someone once asked Hank Williams what made country music successful and he said, \"One word: sincerity.\" Filled with everyday observations ripped straight from his journal, Lenderman's lyrics are sincere in their absurdities, with the vulnerability and honesty of Jason Molina and Daniel Johnston. There are moments of humor (\"Jackass is funny like the Earth is round\"), admission (\"I know why we get so fucked up\"), and recognition of beauty others might not stop to see (\"Your laundry looks so pretty...relaxing in the wind\"). Read alone on the page, \"Hangover Game,\" \"You Have Bought Yourself A Boat,\" and \"Dan Marino,\" stand out as perfect little poems, unpretentious and real. Simply said, these songs are unforgettable.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOr you could also say it like this: listening to \u003cem\u003eBoat Songs\u003c\/em\u003e by MJ Lenderman is like joining your best friends out on the porch. The neighbors might be yelling and the bugs might be biting. But y'all are shooting the shit and letting loose, telling the same old stories again and again. But it don't matter how many times you've heard them, because they're from the heart‚ and in the end they always make you feel alive again.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--Ashleigh Bryant Phillips\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eApril 29, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecord Label: \u003c\/strong\u003eDear Life Records\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat + Color: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCassette\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e1. Hangover Game\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. You Have Bought Yourself A Boat\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. TLC Cage Match\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Toontown\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. 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