MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

AVAILABLE IN 2 COLOR VARIANTS Does the world need a new Neil Young? In the year 2024, the original model is thankfully still functioning and productive, though if we need to have a replacement in reserve, MJ Lenderman is clearly the man for the job. Lenderman showed himself to be a truly valuable sideman in his guitar work with Wednesday and Waxahatchee, and his fourth solo album, 2024's Manning Fireworks, shows he's grown into an artist who is every bit as impressive and capable. Lenderman's music doesn't particularly sound like Neil Young past their shared love of the accents of country music and growling guitars, yet the comparison seems apt as his talents run in parallel with Young's. Lenderman's guitar playing is brilliantly satisfying while avoiding the standard cliches of six-string heroism (significantly, in "She's Leaving You," he derisively mentions someone who "believe(s) that Clapton was the second coming"), and the distance between his simple single-note picking and the fu