Lenderman, MJ / Manning Fireworks
Album: | Manning Fireworks | Collection: | A-File | |
Artist: | Lenderman, MJ | Added: | Oct 2024 | |
Label: | Anti- |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2024-12-17 | Pull Date: | 2025-03-18 |
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Week Ending: | Feb 2 | Jan 26 | Jan 19 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 | Dec 22 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Feb 01, 2025: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Bark at the Moon |
4. | Jan 18, 2025: | Music Casserole
Manning Fireworks |
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2. | Jan 21, 2025: | Traditions - Album releases in 2024
Wristwatch, Manning Fireworks |
5. | Jan 04, 2025: | Hanging in the Boneyard
Joker Lips |
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3. | Jan 18, 2025: | Hanging in the Boneyard
Wristwatch |
6. | Jan 04, 2025: | Music Casserole
Bark at the Moon |
Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-12-07
Reviewed 2024-12-07
ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY-ROCK; MALE SINGER-SONGWRITER
Ashville, NC-based MJ Lenderman has been busy: putting out 5 albums in 5 years, playing in the band Wednesday (see ZK #1150007), and collaborating with Waxahatchee and others. The music here is a mix of indie rock and twangy alt country. Lyrics run from sly & funny to ironic & painful. MJ plays guitar, bass, drums, & organ, while backing musicians add guitars, pedal steel, bass, various keyboards, occasional wind instruments, and harmony vocals. All songs are by Lenderman.
FCC in tracks 2 & 8
Released Sep 2024
1 ** quite slow. living carelessly & without purpose. strumming guitar & fiddle (2:59)
2 (FCC “cum”) mid-tempo. song about a down & out loser. country-rock ballad (3:01)
3 mid-tempo. a downer of a song starts w/ killing a deer on the road. elec & steel gtrs (3:31)
4 *** mid-tempo. an ironic look at using possessions as defence against feelings and compensation for loneliness; the song of the album; guitars, piano, pedal steel (3:42)
5 * mid-tempo rock. life & love are falling apart, indulging in bad impulses (4:38)
6 * slow. a friend is hung over & talking nonsense. neo-trad country ballad (3:32)
7 ** mid-tempo. he’s in bad shape, post-breakup. a nice M/F vocal duet with Karly Hartzman (of Wednesday). acoustic & elec guitars, slide guitar, clarinet (3:36)
8 (FCC “piss”) mid-slow electric rocker. about life’s burdens & threats (3:52)
9 *** mid-slow. sinking into a bad mental space and the gf has left. the title refers to an Ozzy song. elec guitar, slide guitar, synth, clarinet & bass clarinet. instrumental lead-out (total time 10:00 but at ~3:30 [6:30 remaining] it segues into a noise & feedback jam)
Ashville, NC-based MJ Lenderman has been busy: putting out 5 albums in 5 years, playing in the band Wednesday (see ZK #1150007), and collaborating with Waxahatchee and others. The music here is a mix of indie rock and twangy alt country. Lyrics run from sly & funny to ironic & painful. MJ plays guitar, bass, drums, & organ, while backing musicians add guitars, pedal steel, bass, various keyboards, occasional wind instruments, and harmony vocals. All songs are by Lenderman.
FCC in tracks 2 & 8
Released Sep 2024
1 ** quite slow. living carelessly & without purpose. strumming guitar & fiddle (2:59)
2 (FCC “cum”) mid-tempo. song about a down & out loser. country-rock ballad (3:01)
3 mid-tempo. a downer of a song starts w/ killing a deer on the road. elec & steel gtrs (3:31)
4 *** mid-tempo. an ironic look at using possessions as defence against feelings and compensation for loneliness; the song of the album; guitars, piano, pedal steel (3:42)
5 * mid-tempo rock. life & love are falling apart, indulging in bad impulses (4:38)
6 * slow. a friend is hung over & talking nonsense. neo-trad country ballad (3:32)
7 ** mid-tempo. he’s in bad shape, post-breakup. a nice M/F vocal duet with Karly Hartzman (of Wednesday). acoustic & elec guitars, slide guitar, clarinet (3:36)
8 (FCC “piss”) mid-slow electric rocker. about life’s burdens & threats (3:52)
9 *** mid-slow. sinking into a bad mental space and the gf has left. the title refers to an Ozzy song. elec guitar, slide guitar, synth, clarinet & bass clarinet. instrumental lead-out (total time 10:00 but at ~3:30 [6:30 remaining] it segues into a noise & feedback jam)
Track Listing
1. | Manning Fireworks (2:59) | 6. | Rip Torn (3:32) | |||
2. | Joker Lips (3:01) | 7. | You Don't Know the Shape I'm In (3:36) | |||
3. | Rudolph (3:31) | 8. | On My Knees (3:52) | |||
4. | Wristwatch (3:42) | 9. | Bark at the Moon (10:00) | |||
5. | She's Leaving You (4:38) | . |