“You Don’t Know The Form I’m In”
Jake Lenderman performs and information below the title 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 track “Right Back 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 best album of the year, 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 Shape I’m In.” The track itself took form in a number of other ways. Developing, you’ll hear the best way the track 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.
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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 Shape I’m In” – The Band
“You Don’t Know The Shape I’m In” – version featured on Through The Soil II
