“Manning Fireworks”, MJ Lenderman | Duty

At just 25 years old, North Carolina singer-songwriter Mark Jacob Lenderman now has four solo albums to his credit, in addition to the five he has released since 2018 with his band Wednesday. Prolific, the young prodigy of southern rock and alt-country, a fiery guitarist and, above all, a refined author who prefers brief, sometimes raw images to polished poetry: “ You said it takes revision / You said it takes finesse / Don’t move to New York City, babe / It’s gonna change the way you dress “, he sings at the end of the album on Bark at the Moonan indie pop-rock rhythm that, after the verses and the chorus, slips into the atmospheres of electric guitars for almost seven minutes, making us measure the stylistic gap with the title song, a country ballad accompanied by a squeaky violin, which opens the album. Spleenetic as Kurt Vile’s songs can be, rough as some of Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Lenderman’s compositions invite reflection. He will be at the Fairmount Theater on October 21.

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