“You Don’t Know The Form I’m In”
Jake Lenderman performs and data underneath the identify MJ Lenderman. He put out his first album in 2019. Along with his solo work, he’s been a member of the band Wednesday, and he’s additionally featured on the Waxahatchee hit tune “Proper Again to It.” In September 2024, the fourth MJ Lenderman album got here out. It’s referred to as Manning Fireworks. The New Yorker named it the very best album of the yr, and Stereogum, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork all put it of their high ten. For this episode, I talked to Jake about one of many songs from that album, referred to as “You Don’t Know the Form I’m In.” The tune itself took form in a number of other ways. Arising, you’ll hear the way in which the tune began as a demo, after which how that received fleshed out, after which the way it received rebuilt, after which how Jake fully reimagined the entire thing.
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
Karly Hartzman – vocals
Alex Farrar – engineer and co-producer
Landon George – upright bass
Colin Miller – slide banjo
Shane McCord – clarinet
Patterning app
The Hulk
Boat Songs
Marshall half stack
“The Form I’m In” – The Band
“You Don’t Know The Form I’m In” – model featured on By way of The Soil II